garden rhubarb
- noun
- /ˈɡɑrdən ˈruːbɑrb/
:
ruibarbo
- Many cooks combine strawberries with garden rhubarb for a delicious pie filling.
Examples
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The tart flavor of garden rhubarb makes it a favorite ingredient in spring desserts.
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We planted garden rhubarb in the backyard to use in homemade jams.
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I love garden rhubarb pie!
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She grows garden rhubarb in her backyard.
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The tart flavor of garden rhubarb makes it a favorite ingredient in spring desserts.
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We planted garden rhubarb in the backyard to use in homemade jams.
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Many cooks combine strawberries with garden rhubarb for a delicious pie filling.
Synonyms
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Thick sour stalks usually cooked and sweetened for pies
A plant with thick edible stalks often used in cooking like pies
A plant with thick stems you can eat, often used in pies
A plant with long sour stalks usually cooked with sugar and used in pies
A garden plant that grows back every year with thick stalks you cook and eat but poisonous leaves
A plant with tart edible stems that people cook and eat in pies
A garden plant like rhubarb grown for its sour edible stems used in pies or jam
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Morphology
The noun phrase is compositionally built from 'garden' (an outdoor plot) + 'rhubarb' (the tart stalk-producing plant), so the meaning — rhubarb grown in/for a garden — is directly derivable from the parts. There is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift and the construction is cross-linguistically straightforward, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand it.
Etymology
The name garden rhubarb likely comes from people planting tart rhubarb in their own garden to eat instead of using the plant only for medicine. So, garden rhubarb means the common, 'edible' plant with thick stalks often cooked into pies and jams.