"rhubarb" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened (synset 107729012)
is a type 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

same as: pieplant
Plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps;
Stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked;
Leaves are poisonous (synset 112623741)
is a type 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
subtypes:
- 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
belongs to: genus rheum, rheum - rhubarb

same as: rhubarb plant