RHUBARB
\ɹˈuːbɑːb], \ɹˈuːbɑːb], \ɹ_ˈuː_b_ɑː_b]\
Definitions of RHUBARB
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
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plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous
By Princeton University
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long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
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plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
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Rheum officinale (Baill.), R. palmatum (L.), and other species of Polygonaceae that contain chrysophanic acid, rhein, EMODIN, and other anthraquinones. The roots were formerly used as purgatives.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A plant, the stalks of which are much used in cooking and the root in medicine, so called because brought orig. from the banks of the Rha or Volga.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Rheum- r. Chinese, see Rheum-r. French, Rheum Rhaponticum- r. India, see Rheum- r. Krimea, Rheum Rhaponticum-r. Monk's, Rumex Alpinus, Rumex patientia-r. Poor man's, Thalictron-r. Rhapontic, Rheum Rhaponticum-r. Russia, see Rheum-r. Turkey, see Rheum-r. Wild, Convolvulus panduratus.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of the U. S. Ph. and Br. Ph., the root of Rheum officinale and other undetermined species of Rheum. The various species supposed to yield rhubarb produce under cultivation in Europe roots lacking some of the characteristics of the Chinese drug. All varieties of r. root have the properties, though in a lesser degree, of the Chinese drug. It is purgative and in small doses a mild laxative and stomachic tonic.
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The genus Rheum. For the preparations, see under Rheum.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
