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GARDEN RHUBARB
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Dictionary entry overview: What does garden rhubarb mean?
• GARDEN RHUBARB (noun)
The noun GARDEN RHUBARB has 1 sense:
1. long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves
Familiarity information: GARDEN RHUBARB used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum
Hypernyms ("garden rhubarb" 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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