Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Rhubarb plant   /rˈubˌɑrb plænt/   Listen
Rhubarb plant

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






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Rhubarb plant" Quotes from Famous Books



... were tabooed both by my rank and my mother's sectarianism, and the study of human beings only develops itself as the boy grows into the man)—these few natural objects, I say, I studied with intense keenness. I knew every leaf and flower in the little front garden; every cabbage and rhubarb plant in Battersea fields was wonderful and beautiful to me. Clouds and water I learned to delight in, from my occasional lingerings on Battersea bridge, and yearning westward looks toward the sun setting above rich meadows and wooded gardens, to me ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al



Words linked to "Rhubarb plant" :   Rheum emodi, herbaceous plant, Indian rhubarb, genus Rheum, pie plant, herb, Rheum palmatum, Chinese rhubarb, Rheum rhaponticum, garden rhubarb, Rheum cultorum, Rheum rhabarbarum, Himalayan rhubarb, Rheum australe, rheum, red-veined pie plant



Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org