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RHUBARB

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened

Synonyms:

pieplant; rhubarb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("rhubarb" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

rhubarb; rhubarb plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("rhubarb" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhubarb"):

Himalayan rhubarb; Indian rhubarb; red-veined pie plant; Rheum australe; Rheum emodi (Asian herb (Himalayas))

garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum (long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves)

Chinese rhubarb; Rheum palmatum (long used for laxative properties)

Holonyms ("rhubarb" is a member of...):

genus Rheum; Rheum (rhubarb)

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