| 单词 | garden rhubarb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgarden rhubarb a. Originally: an exotic plant producing the medicinal rootstock known as rhubarb, rhabarbarum, or rhapontic (see sense A. 2a) (later identified as any of several, mainly Chinese, species of the genus Rheum). In later use: any plant of the genus Rheum, comprising rhizomatous herbaceous plants with very large palmate or rounded basal leaves, native esp. to China and other temperate parts of Asia; esp. (more fully common rhubarb, garden rhubarb) any of the kinds grown in gardens or commercially for their edible acidic leaf-stalks, known as R. x hybridum or R. x cultorum (probably hybrids derived from R. rhaponticum) . R. rhaponticum (see rhapontic n. 1) appears to have been the first plant accurately identified by European botanists as a source of the drug, around the beginning of the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Polygonaceae (dock and allies) > [noun] > dock and allies red dockeOE dockc1000 rhubarbc1390 docken1423 patience?a1425 round dock1526 Rumex1565 wild patience1578 bloody dock1597 monk's rhubarb1597 Welsh sorrel1640 butterdock1688 mountain rhapontic1728 mountain sorrel1753 Rheum1753 redshank1810 patience dock1816 fiddle-dock1823 canaigre1868 nettle-docken1891 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > Chinese rhubarb rhubarbc1390 rhabarbarum1533 rhabarb1558 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > cleansing or expelling medicines > [noun] > purgative > plant-derived scammonyc1000 lign-aloesc1374 hiera picra1379 rhubarbc1390 aloea1398 cassia fistulaa1398 coloquintidaa1398 senec1400 turpethc1400 coloquintc1420 diagrydium1436 lignum aloes1525 rhabarbarum1533 xylaloes1540 manna1541 scilla1548 hyera?1550 emblic1555 diasenna1562 colocynth1565 tragonce1575 pinyon1577 mechoacan1587 lignum aquilae1600 gamboge1615 dragon-root1621 helleborism1621 diaprune1625 alhandal1630 makinboy1652 luskard1653 diagrydiate1657 physic nut1657 aloetic1661 scammoniate1665 jalap1675 aloedary1683 coloquinto1683 Briançon manna1688 liquorice powder1712 coloquintid1732 castor oil1746 senna-tea1752 higry pigry1773 Turkey rhubarb1789 argel1803 hickery-pickery1816 cathartin1823 aloin1828 croton oil1829 jalapin1832 syrmaea1833 bryonin1836 gambogic acid1837 Podophyllum1844 podophyllin1851 geropiga1852 hicra picra1857 Montpellier turpeth1860 picra1860 tallicoona oil1866 scammonin1868 pharbitisin1873 cascara sagrada1879 senna-draught1879 tambor-oil1890 syrup of figs1897 pharbitin1899 the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > stalk vegetables > [noun] > rhubarb rha1578 rhubarb1650 tusky1957 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > stalk vegetables > garden rhubarb rhapontic?c1425 rha1578 Pontic rhubarb1597 rhubarb1650 Indian rhubarb1652 monk's rhubarb1737 pie plant1838 c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 112 (MED) Columbyne and Charuwe clottes þei creue, With Ruwe and Rubarbe, Ragget ariht. c1475 tr. Secreta Secret. (Tripolitanus abbrev.) (1977) 362 When the wyne is taken outrageouslye..It causeth the mouth to stynk..he chaungeth his nature as doth an herb callid reubarbe [a1500 Lamb. Reubarb]. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 41v Necessarie herbes to growe in the garden for Phisick & bathes not reherst before... 17 Rewe. 18 Rubarb. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. x. 328 There be diuers sortes of Rha, or as it is nowe called Rheubarbe. 1650 W. Denton Let. to R. Verney 21 Mar. (MS.) I have..sent you 30 small roots of rhubarb. The leaves will be as bige as the burdock..but of a finer green. 1656 C. Irvine Medicina Magnetica ii. 49 Thou mayst also in all diseases of the liver, and the meseraicks use with good successe, an extract of Rhubarb. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1654 (1955) III. 110 We went to the Physick Garden... There Grew Canes, Olive Tres, Rhubarb. 1765 J. Hope Let. 24 Sept. in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1766) 55 290 I received from Doctor Mounsey the seeds of the Rheum palmatum, which he assured me were the seeds of the true Rhubarb. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 206/2 Rheum..1. The Rhaponticum, or common rhubarb... It grows in Thrace and Scythia, but has been long in English gardens... The plant being astringent, its young stalks in spring, being cut and peeled, are used for tarts. 1827 Q. Jrnl. Sci., Lit., & Art July 168 The famous rhubarb, which has of late acquired so much celebrity under the name of Buck's rhubarb;..this sort is the genuine Rheum undulatum. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 503 Oxalic acid is copiously formed in both Docks and Rhubarbs. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 June 5/2 In most gardens the rhubarbs are considered only in their capacity as food suppliers, but at Kew they are allowed to assume their natural characters. 1934 C. C. Steele Introd. Plant Biochem. iv. xii. 129 In several of the very acid plants, such as Rhubarb and Begonia, it has..been shown that the acids are derived by the elimination of ammonia from, or ‘deamination’ of, amino-acids. 1968 Times 5 Sept. 14/5 Commercial stocks of several varieties of rhubarb are known to be widely infected with various viruses that cause diseases if they infect other plants. 1992 H. Mitchell One Man's Garden iii. 56 The leaves [of hogwort] are a foot or so across, somewhat wrinkled, like a rhubarb or gunnera. 2001 BBC Gardeners' World Feb. 27/4 In the kitchen garden..cover early varieties of rhubarb with forcing jars. < as lemmas |
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