| 单词 | pontic rhubarb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasPontic rhubarb Pontic rhubarb n. [after post-classical Latin reu Ponticum (a1250, 1538 in British sources; compare classical Latin radix Pontica), Byzantine Greek ρέον Ποντικόν] rare = rhapontic n. 1. ΘΚΠ 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 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 317 The Ponticke Rubarbe is lesser and slenderer then that of Barbarie. 1793 G. Riley Beauties of Creation (ed. 2) V. 159 The scarceness of Pontic Rhubarb from the Levant, hath given leave to some to substitute in its room, among those who have not a perfect knowledge of the other, the roots of the Hippolapathum, or Bastard Rhubarb. 1932 tr. R. Bacon in Isis 18 39 For example, there is rhubarb senith, which is Indian rhubarb, and is far better than Pontic rhubarb. < as lemmas |
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