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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rhubarb.
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Rhubarb, or Rheum rhabarbarum, is a vegetable with a unique taste that makes it a favorite in many pies and desserts.
Rhubarb Coffee Cake 2006
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Rhubarb, or Rheum rhabarbarum, is a vegetable with a unique taste that makes it a favorite in many pies and desserts.
Archive 2006-06-01 2006
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It is the startlingly sour leaf stalks of a large herb, Rheum rhabarbarum, that is native to temperate Eurasia and became popular in early 19th-century England as one of the first fruit-like produce items to appear in the early spring.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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It is the startlingly sour leaf stalks of a large herb, Rheum rhabarbarum, that is native to temperate Eurasia and became popular in early 19th-century England as one of the first fruit-like produce items to appear in the early spring.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Photograph: guardian. co.uk Rhubarb is the vegetable stalk of a large perennial herb (rheum rhabarbarum and a couple of other members of the same family) with an uncanny ability to impersonate fresh fruit in the middle of winter.
WN.com - Articles related to Call to strengthen crop monitoring mechanism 2010
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Rhubarb is the vegetable stalk of a large perennial herb (rheum rhabarbarum and a couple of other members of the same family) with an uncanny ability to impersonate fresh fruit in the middle of winter.
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The name rhubarb comes from the Latin rhabarbarum meaning (depending on your viewpoint!) "root of the barbarians".
Cook sister! 2008
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EadS ratio tfe rhabarbarum hic damnat Arcul. rha - barbaritamendrachm#duse vel tres, ciipau - ca fpicaminutim concifainfu£e, aut pot$s
Morborum internorum prope omnium curatio, certa methodo comprehensa, ex ... Marco Gatinaria 1554
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