Definition of Rhubarb plant

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhubarb Plant

rhotacises
rhotacising
rhotacism
rhotacisms
rhotacization
rhotacize
rhotacized
rhotacizes
rhotacizing
rhotic
rhoticity
rhtic
rhtizite
rhubarb
rhubarb pie
rhubarb plant (current term)
rhubarb rhubarb
rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
rhubarblike
rhubarbs
rhubarby
rhumb
rhumb-line
rhumb line
rhumb lines
rhumba
rhumbaed
rhumbaing
rhumbas
rhumbline

Literary usage of Rhubarb plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1847)
"Mr. Rye writes to me thus: " I have succeeded in tracing the Banbury rhubarb plant through the present grower (from whom I obtained the specimen sent to ..."

2. Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet: Being a by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Przhevalʹskiĭ (1876)
"THE rhubarb plant. P. 81. The following Note is a translation of an article which ... for the illustration of the rhubarb plant on page 82 of this volume. ..."

3. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1865)
"... of honesty to that standard, namely, faithful obedience and truthful accuracy. Brooklyn, September, 1865. NATIVE WINE FROM THE GARDEN rhubarb plant. ..."

4. On Poisons in Relation to Medical Jurisprudence and Medicine by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1859)
"The stalks of the leaves of the rhubarb-plant now constitute a very common article of food, and accidents are said to have arisen from its having been eaten ..."

5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Chinese rhubarb plant. Believed to be the source of the best Chinese rhubarb. ... rhubarb plant. Source of the Russian rhubarb formerly highly valued and of ..."

6. New Remedies: An Illustrated Monthly Trade Journal of Materia Medica edited by Horatio Charles Wood, Frederick Albert Castle, Charles Rice (1877)
"... rhubarb-plant has three to four large, dark- green, palmately-lobed leaves, growing from the root; the largest leaf which we found was 63 centimetres ..."

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