A type of rhubarb rootstock used medicinally but considered to be of inferior quality (to Chinese varieties), spec. that obtained from Rheum rhapon…
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > garden rhubarb (7) rhapontic?c1425 A type of rhubarb rootstock used medicinally but considered to be of inferior quality (to Chinese varieties), spec. that obtained from Rheum rhapon… rha1578 The medicinal dried rootstock of any of various species of rhubarb, typically imported to Europe from Asia; a plant producing this (see rhubarb, n.… Pontic rhubarb1597 = rhapontic, n. 1. rhubarb1650 Originally: an exotic plant producing the medicinal rootstock known as rhubarb, rhabarbarum, or rhapontic (see sense A. 2a) (later identified as… Indian rhubarb1652 Any of several rhubarbs (genus Rheum) originating in or obtained from East Asia, esp. R. palmatum (also called Chinese rhubarb), often used… monk's rhubarb1737 Any of the garden rhubarbs (genus Rheum). Obsolete. pie plant1838 (a) garden rhubarb, Rheum× hybridum; (b) canaigre or wild rhubarb, Rumex hymenosepalus, which is used like garden rhubarb. |
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