rhubarb

Examples

• All

• Wouldn't this be a good time for a piece of rhubarb pie?

  A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

• I made a delicious rhubarb pie using fresh stalks from the garden.

• Inside, you will find a rhubarb pie.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I like that rhubarb pie that Martha makes.

  Dennis the Menace (1993)

• Let's go get some strawberry rhubarb with ice cream.

• "My strawberry rhubarb pie is better than this."

  Fiction book (1993)

• My favorite was something Mother called Rhubarb Betty, which was sort of an upside-down cake with the rhubarb on the bottom.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Bernie will make a special rhubarb tart.

  Fiction book (1998)

• We spent the afternoon making a strawberry-rhubarb pie, sipping iced tea in the shade, and reading.

  Fiction book (1993)

• With its gemlike strawberries and ruby stalks of rhubarb, this pie has marked many special occasions since then.

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Synonyms

P

pie plant

vsrhubarb

• Archaic

6.1

A plant with thick stems you can eat, often used in pies

is the common edible stalk plant rather than a historic name

P

pieplant

vsrhubarb

• Archaic

9.9

A plant with long sour stalks usually cooked with sugar and used in pies

is the broader definition of edible sour stalks used in cooking

R

Rheum rhabarbarum

vsrhubarb

• Specialized

7.8

A plant with thick edible stalks often used in cooking like pies

is the everyday food term rather than the scientific name

R

Rheum rhaponticum

vsrhubarb

• Specialized

9.6

A plant with tart edible stems that people cook and eat in pies

is the general garden food plant term rather than this species name

G

garden rhubarb

vsrhubarb

2.5

A plant with thick red or green stalks that taste tart and are cooked in pies

is the general food plant, not limited to garden varieties

R

rhubarb plant

vsrhubarb

3.2

A garden plant that grows back every year with thick stalks you cook and eat but poisonous leaves

focuses on the edible stalks used cooked, not the poisonous leaves

Compounds

R

rhubarb pie

3 1.6

A sweet pie made from sour red plant stalks and sugar

B

bog rhubarb

• UK

9.9

A small plant with broad leaves and pale pink flowers that grows in wet places

C

Chinese rhubarb

8.9

A large plant from China with a root people use as a strong laxative

G

garden rhubarb

2.5

A plant with thick red or green stalks that taste tart and are cooked in pies

H

Himalayan rhubarb

• Indian

9.8

A large mountain plant with thick roots used in traditional medicine and for making yellow dye

I

Indian rhubarb

• US

7.7

A perennial plant with large round leaves and groups of bright pink or white flowers that grows beside streams

I

Indian rhubarb

• Indian

9.6

A herb from the Himalayas with roots used in traditional medicine and leaves like common rhubarb

R

rhubarb plant

3.2

A garden plant that grows back every year with thick stalks you cook and eat but poisonous leaves

Surface Forms

Etymology