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RHEUM RHAPONTICUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Rheum rhaponticum mean?
• RHEUM RHAPONTICUM (noun)
The noun RHEUM RHAPONTICUM has 1 sense:
1. long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves
Familiarity information: RHEUM RHAPONTICUM 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 ("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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