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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.
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Rheum, Rheum
Specialized synonyms: Himalayan Rhubarb, Indian Rhubarb, Red-veined Pie Plant, Rheum Australe, Rheum Emodi, Garden Rhubarb, Pie Plant, Rheum Cultorum, Rheum Rhabarbarum, Rheum Rhaponticum, Chinese Rhubarb, Rheum Palmatum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhubarb Plant
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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