Definition of rhubarb in English:
rhubarb
noun ˈruːbɑːbˈruˌbɑrb
1The thick reddish or green leaf stalks of a cultivated plant of the dock family, which are eaten as a fruit after cooking.
大黄叶柄as modifier rhubarb pie- Now I like deli food, but I am still dedicated to traditional roasts and puddings such as trifle and rhubarb pies.
- A weekly newsletter describes the day the cow got out or offers a recipe for rhubarb pie.
- In the middle of this foody conversation, someone mentioned rhubarb jam and I said it was very difficult to get these days.
- I think you ought to cut back on the fruitcake, perhaps toss back a tasty rhubarb and turnip smoothie.
- There would be rhubarb pie and buttermilk, flags flying and youngsters scampering, a parade, a pageant, and fireworks to light up the night sky.
- Adult baking and preserve classes feature as strongly as ever and will give cooks the opportunity to present their finest brown and white bread, carrot cake and apple and rhubarb tarts.
- The light deprivation leads to a sweeter rhubarb than the summer variety and it has become the connoisseurs' choice for sweet and savoury dishes.
- At last, we decided to retreat indoors for a bedtime dessert, a fresh pie made with rhubarb from the garden.
- Neil felt he was on to a winner with his rhubarb pie and custard, praising the pastry and the flavour of the fruit.
- Tom surveyed the table, eyes settling on rhubarb pie.
- From my limited experience, rhubarbs didn't seem to make extraordinarily delicious desserts, but since I live in place where I can at least find them in a local supermarket, so why not try?
- Newly listed at Morrisons, it is rich, spicy and jam-packed with over-ripe berry fruit, rhubarb, coffee and a little mint.
- For dessert we shared a crème brûlée and a rhubarb and ginger crumble with ice cream.
- We then moved on to a rhubarb and ginger crumble.
- A year later he was awarded prizes for his peas, grapes, rhubarb and apples.
- I closed my eyes, Dolly snuggled up against my legs, and off I drifted, to dream of potatoes and good rhubarb pie.
- Don't, whatever you do, and I'm being one hundred per cent serious here, mix quadruple whiskies, cheeseburgers and re-heated rhubarb pie.
- I love his Aussie take on food - particularly the fish, or putting roast duck together with rosti and a rhubarb and red port sauce.
- Having inspected a chill cabinet and spotting cherry and rhubarb slice, curd tart and apple and cinnamon tart I opted for the latter.
- For most of us, that first rhubarb pie of the season is second to none.
2The large-leaved Eurasian plant which produces rhubarb.
大黄Rheum rhaponticum or 'rhabarbarum', family Polygonaceae
- But they did grow carrots, lettuce, peas and rhubarb.
- The leaves of our giant rhubarb have been shown at school, used as fans in hot weather, draped over climbing frames and used to camouflage dens.
- The sunny rear garden at 376 Clontarf Road includes a patio area and a long lawn with mature apple trees, rhubarb plants and blackberry bushes.
- Perennials, such as artichokes, asparagus and rhubarb are also sold in bare-root form.
- For anyone wanting to add asparagus or rhubarb plants to the garden, these should also be planted in early spring as soon as they become available.
- Set out roots of asparagus, horseradish, and rhubarb in well-tilled soil.
- In England, rhubarb became known, at first in a purely medicinal context, in the 16th century.
- In medieval times, rhubarb was used only for medicinal purposes in Europe and few lay people even knew what the plant looked like.
- To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
- The potassium and calcium salts of oxalic acid are found naturally in cabbage, spinach, and rhubarb leaves, and are also found in the bark of some species of eucalyptus trees.
- Unfolded flower buds of rhubarb are cooked in the same ways as elderberry flowers.
- Artichokes, rhubarb and potatoes also grow well here.
- This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf.
- Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time.
- The house is looking a little the worse for the weather, but still retains its splendour, with beautiful gardens, including an old jacaranda tree and a broad bed of agapanthus and wild rhubarb.
- As soon as the soil can be worked, plant bare-root asparagus, horseradish, Jerusalem artichokes, and rhubarb.
- Laxative herbs such as cascara bark, rhubarb and senna are used to clear excess Fire.
- In summer, it will be overflowing with pink rhubarb, broad beans, sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, radishes, red Batavian lettuce and herbs.
- In cold-winter climates, now is a good time to set out cane berries, fruit and nut trees, grapes, rhubarb, roses, and strawberries.
- Any day now we'll be fondling spring carrots and even the first outdoor rhubarb and radishes.
- 2.1 Used in names of other plants of the same genus as rhubarb, several of which are used medicinally, e.g. Chinese rhubarb.用于大黄属其他植物名，如：Chinese rhubarb
- Its common name is prickly rhubarb and it does indeed look like rhubarb gone ballistic.
- Other common names include pestwurz, blatterdock, bog rhubarb, and butter-dock.
3British informal The noise made by a group of actors to give the impression of indistinct background conversation, especially by the random repetition of the word ‘rhubarb’.
〈英，非正式〉（一群演员用不同音调乱嚷'rhubarb'时造成的）喧哗效果；起哄- Suddenly stuck for words to say, we started saying mumble mumble mumble and rah rah rah and rhubarb rhubarb to each other, and being extra-animated in our facial expressions and gestures.
- 3.1 Nonsense.胡说；无价值的东西it was all rhubarb, about me, about her daughter, about art
关于我，关于她女儿，关于艺术的说法全是一派胡言。
4North American informal count noun A heated dispute.
〈北美，非正式〉激烈的争论，激烈的辩论rhubarbs often broke out among these less than professional players- After all, Martin reasoned, such retaliation is a commonplace of baseball, with brushback rhubarbs happening almost weekly every season.
- An intense rhubarb developed which lasted 34 minutes.
- Still, it was just a run-of-the-mill rhubarb, barely worth comment, which is true of most such arguments between arbiters and managers or players.
- But I will say that Lederer lost his only chance to win the game when he didn't lodge a protest against Collier during a third-inning rhubarb.
argument, dispute, disagreement, quarrel, row, fight, squabble, difference of opinion, altercation, angry exchange, war of words, shouting match, tiff
Origin
Late Middle English (denoting the rootstock of other plants of this genus used medicinally): from Old French reubarbe, from a shortening of medieval Latin rheubarbarum, alteration (by association with rheum 'rhubarb') of rhabarbarum 'foreign rhubarb', from Greek rha (also meaning 'rhubarb') + barbaros 'foreign'.
English speakers have been eating rhubarb since medieval times. It came originally from China and Tibet, and the name reflects its exotic origins, going back to Greek rhabarbarum, the second part of which comes from barbaros ‘foreign’ (see barbarian). It was originally a medicinal plant and the variety used as part of a meal only appears in 1650. Actors who wanted to give the impression of indistinct background conversation on stage traditionally achieved this by repeating ‘rhubarb, rhubarb’, leading to the word becoming a verb in the mid 20th century.
Definition of rhubarb in US English:
rhubarb
nounˈro͞oˌbärbˈruˌbɑrb
1The thick leaf stalks of a cultivated plant of the dock family, which are reddish or green and eaten as a fruit after cooking.
大黄叶柄- For dessert we shared a crème brûlée and a rhubarb and ginger crumble with ice cream.
- Adult baking and preserve classes feature as strongly as ever and will give cooks the opportunity to present their finest brown and white bread, carrot cake and apple and rhubarb tarts.
- Tom surveyed the table, eyes settling on rhubarb pie.
- I love his Aussie take on food - particularly the fish, or putting roast duck together with rosti and a rhubarb and red port sauce.
- In the middle of this foody conversation, someone mentioned rhubarb jam and I said it was very difficult to get these days.
- We then moved on to a rhubarb and ginger crumble.
- The light deprivation leads to a sweeter rhubarb than the summer variety and it has become the connoisseurs' choice for sweet and savoury dishes.
- From my limited experience, rhubarbs didn't seem to make extraordinarily delicious desserts, but since I live in place where I can at least find them in a local supermarket, so why not try?
- For most of us, that first rhubarb pie of the season is second to none.
- There would be rhubarb pie and buttermilk, flags flying and youngsters scampering, a parade, a pageant, and fireworks to light up the night sky.
- Neil felt he was on to a winner with his rhubarb pie and custard, praising the pastry and the flavour of the fruit.
- I closed my eyes, Dolly snuggled up against my legs, and off I drifted, to dream of potatoes and good rhubarb pie.
- Newly listed at Morrisons, it is rich, spicy and jam-packed with over-ripe berry fruit, rhubarb, coffee and a little mint.
- At last, we decided to retreat indoors for a bedtime dessert, a fresh pie made with rhubarb from the garden.
- Don't, whatever you do, and I'm being one hundred per cent serious here, mix quadruple whiskies, cheeseburgers and re-heated rhubarb pie.
- Now I like deli food, but I am still dedicated to traditional roasts and puddings such as trifle and rhubarb pies.
- Having inspected a chill cabinet and spotting cherry and rhubarb slice, curd tart and apple and cinnamon tart I opted for the latter.
- A year later he was awarded prizes for his peas, grapes, rhubarb and apples.
- A weekly newsletter describes the day the cow got out or offers a recipe for rhubarb pie.
- I think you ought to cut back on the fruitcake, perhaps toss back a tasty rhubarb and turnip smoothie.
2The large-leaved Eurasian plant which produces rhubarb.
大黄Rheum rhaponticum or 'rhabarbarum', family Polygonaceae
- In England, rhubarb became known, at first in a purely medicinal context, in the 16th century.
- For anyone wanting to add asparagus or rhubarb plants to the garden, these should also be planted in early spring as soon as they become available.
- In cold-winter climates, now is a good time to set out cane berries, fruit and nut trees, grapes, rhubarb, roses, and strawberries.
- Artichokes, rhubarb and potatoes also grow well here.
- Any day now we'll be fondling spring carrots and even the first outdoor rhubarb and radishes.
- Laxative herbs such as cascara bark, rhubarb and senna are used to clear excess Fire.
- Perennials, such as artichokes, asparagus and rhubarb are also sold in bare-root form.
- The sunny rear garden at 376 Clontarf Road includes a patio area and a long lawn with mature apple trees, rhubarb plants and blackberry bushes.
- As soon as the soil can be worked, plant bare-root asparagus, horseradish, Jerusalem artichokes, and rhubarb.
- Medicinal rhubarbs, as a purgative, are among the most important drug plants of all time.
- In summer, it will be overflowing with pink rhubarb, broad beans, sweetcorn, cherry tomatoes, radishes, red Batavian lettuce and herbs.
- But they did grow carrots, lettuce, peas and rhubarb.
- The leaves of our giant rhubarb have been shown at school, used as fans in hot weather, draped over climbing frames and used to camouflage dens.
- In medieval times, rhubarb was used only for medicinal purposes in Europe and few lay people even knew what the plant looked like.
- Unfolded flower buds of rhubarb are cooked in the same ways as elderberry flowers.
- The potassium and calcium salts of oxalic acid are found naturally in cabbage, spinach, and rhubarb leaves, and are also found in the bark of some species of eucalyptus trees.
- Set out roots of asparagus, horseradish, and rhubarb in well-tilled soil.
- The house is looking a little the worse for the weather, but still retains its splendour, with beautiful gardens, including an old jacaranda tree and a broad bed of agapanthus and wild rhubarb.
- This also applies to some purgative herbs such as rhubarb and senna leaf.
- To the rear of Old Hall is a large walled garden that has lawns and a variety of plants and shrubs, as well as strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, rhubarb, plum and apple trees.
- 2.1 Used in names of other plants of the sane genus as rhubarb, several of which are used medicinally, e.g., Chinese rhubarb.用于大黄属其他植物名，如：Chinese rhubarb
- Its common name is prickly rhubarb and it does indeed look like rhubarb gone ballistic.
- Other common names include pestwurz, blatterdock, bog rhubarb, and butter-dock.
3British informal The noise made by a group of actors to give the impression of indistinct background conversation or to represent the noise of a crowd, especially by the random repetition of the word “rhubarb” with different intonations.
〈英，非正式〉（一群演员用不同音调乱嚷'rhubarb'时造成的）喧哗效果；起哄- Suddenly stuck for words to say, we started saying mumble mumble mumble and rah rah rah and rhubarb rhubarb to each other, and being extra-animated in our facial expressions and gestures.
4North American informal A heated dispute.
〈北美，非正式〉激烈的争论，激烈的辩论rhubarbs often broke out among these less than professional players- An intense rhubarb developed which lasted 34 minutes.
- But I will say that Lederer lost his only chance to win the game when he didn't lodge a protest against Collier during a third-inning rhubarb.
- Still, it was just a run-of-the-mill rhubarb, barely worth comment, which is true of most such arguments between arbiters and managers or players.
- After all, Martin reasoned, such retaliation is a commonplace of baseball, with brushback rhubarbs happening almost weekly every season.
argument, dispute, disagreement, quarrel, row, fight, squabble, difference of opinion, altercation, angry exchange, war of words, shouting match, tiff
Origin
Late Middle English (denoting the rootstock of other plants of this genus used medicinally): from Old French reubarbe, from a shortening of medieval Latin rheubarbarum, alteration (by association with rheum ‘rhubarb’) of rhabarbarum ‘foreign rhubarb’, from Greek rha (also meaning ‘rhubarb’) + barbaros ‘foreign’.