RHEUM RHAPONTICUM

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Meaning:

Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves

Synonyms:

garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Rheum rhaponticum" is a kind of...):

rhubarb; rhubarb plant (plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous)

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