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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • The name rhubarb comes from the Latin rhabarbarum meaning (depending on your viewpoint!) "root of the barbarians".

    Cook sister! 2008

  • 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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