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    RHEUM RHAPONTICUM

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preservesplay

    Synonyms:

    garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Rheum rhaponticum" 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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