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    RHUBARB

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetenedplay

    Synonyms:

    pieplant; rhubarb

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("rhubarb" is a kind of...):

    veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    rhubarb; rhubarb plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("rhubarb" is a kind of...):

    herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rhubarb"):

    Himalayan rhubarb; Indian rhubarb; red-veined pie plant; Rheum australe; Rheum emodi (Asian herb (Himalayas))

    garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum (long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves)

    Chinese rhubarb; Rheum palmatum (long used for laxative properties)

    Holonyms ("rhubarb" is a member of...):

    genus Rheum; Rheum (rhubarb)

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