pie plant
- noun
- /paɪ plænt/
- Archaic
:
ruibarbo
- They used fresh pie plant to bake a tart and tangy dessert.
Examples
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She picked some fresh pie plant from the garden.
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The garden had a large patch of pie plant behind the shed.
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Her grandmother always made the best pie plant jam in the spring.
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Are you going to use pie plants in your dessert?
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Her grandmother always made the best pie plant jam in the spring.
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They used fresh pie plant to bake a tart and tangy dessert.
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The garden had a large patch of pie plant behind the shed.
Synonyms
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Thick sour stalks usually cooked and sweetened for pies
A plant with long sour stalks usually cooked with sugar and used in pies
A plant with thick edible stalks often used in cooking like pies
A plant with thick red or green stalks that taste tart and are cooked 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
A herb from the Himalayas with red veins in its leaves used in pies
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun combines 'pie' and 'plant' in a directly compositional way to indicate a plant used for pies (i.e., an edible plant like rhubarb). A B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer that it refers to a plant associated with making pies, so the meaning is transparently derived from its parts.
Etymology
Pie plant is an old garden name for 'rhubarb'. People called it a pie plant because the long, tart stems were often cooked into pies and jams, so the name came to mean 'rhubarb'.