rhubarb
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- noun
- /ˈruːbɑːrb/
:
ruibarbo
- But we have a prolific rhubarb plant in our garden, and strawberries grow year-round on the California coast.
- rhubarb stalks
- rhubarb leaves
- rhubarb sauce
Take your leathery hands off of my rhubarb.
- Take your leathery hands off of my rhubarb.
- It's a very reliable perennial variety of rhubarb.
Examples
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This year, he was giving her the bottle of rhubarb wine that he had won in the raffle at the church sale.
Fiction book (1990) -
So what I first want to start off by saying is that rhubarb is a very easy plant to grow.
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You think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?
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Here, cut the tops off this rhubarb.
Fiction book (1993) -
When Jada's bucket was filled, she moved over to the rhubarb patch to pull a few stalks for breakfast.
Fiction book (1993) -
She picked up the stalks of rhubarb and the P56 bucket of peas and walked toward the house.
Fiction book (1993) -
Foods like potato chips, spinach, rhubarb and beets are high in oxalate, so doctors might advise limiting them.
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You can make a delicious pie using rhubarb, which has a tart flavor.
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In spring, many gardeners harvest rhubarb to use in jams and desserts.
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To prepare rhubarb for cooking, cut the thick stalks and discard the poisonous leaves.
Synonyms
A garden plant that grows back every year with thick stalks you cook and eat but poisonous leaves
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 thick red or green stalks that taste tart and are cooked in pies
A plant with tart edible stems that people cook and eat in pies
Compounds
- Indian
A large mountain plant with thick roots used in traditional medicine and for making yellow dye
A perennial plant with large round leaves and groups of bright pink or white flowers that grows beside streams
- Indian
A herb from the Himalayas with roots used in traditional medicine and leaves like common rhubarb
A garden plant that grows back every year with thick stalks you cook and eat but poisonous leaves
How Poisonous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Rhubarb comes from the old Greek word rhabarbaron, which meant 'root of the barbarians' because the plant came from far foreign lands, and that helps explain why the name fits a plant whose thick leafstalks we cook while the broad leaves are poisonous.