rhubarb
noun /ˈruːbɑːb/
/ˈruːbɑːrb/
[uncountable]- the thick red stems of a garden plant, also called rhubarb, that are cooked and eaten as a fruit
enlarge image- rhubarb pie
- a word that a group of actors repeat on stage to give the impression of a lot of people talking at the same time
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French reubarbe, from a shortening of medieval Latin rheubarbarum, alteration (by association with rheum ‘rhubarb’) of rhabarbarum ‘foreign rhubarb’, from Greek rha (also meaning ‘rhubarb’) + barbaros ‘foreign’.