What does the word rhubarb mean?
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Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially R. rhaponticum, garden rhubarb, pie- plant, and R. officinale, or its rhizome, the drug rheum.
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Rheum- r. Chinese, see Rheum-r. French, Rheum Rhaponticum- r. India, see Rheum- r. Krimea, Rheum Rhaponticum-r. Monk's, Rumex Alpinus, Rumex patientia-r. Poor man's, Thalictron-r. Rhapontic, Rheum Rhaponticum-r. Russia, see Rheum-r. Turkey, see Rheum-r. Wild, Convolvulus panduratus.
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Usage examples for rhubarb
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They had learned a few things about rhubarb raiders and how to handle them from the many raids staged out of England upon the low countries. – A Yankee Flier in Italy by Rutherford G. Montgomery
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For our dinner Mrs. Johnson gives us home- grown parsley, radishes, lettuce, and green onions; the potatoes are eight or ten inches high, and rhubarb stalks an inch and a half in diameter. – The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
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