Rheum Rhabarbarum (Noun)
Meaning
Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The chef used a type of rhubarb known as rheum rhabarbarum in her award-winning strawberry rhubarb pie recipe.
- In medieval times rheum rhabarbarum was primarily valued for its medicinal properties, rather than as a food ingredient.
- Some recipes still recommend using fresh rheum rhabarbarum in the spring, but others say that frozen stalks are just as effective.
- In an attempt to avoid confusing it with the poisonous lookalike rheum rhaponticum, she decided to use the botanical name rheum rhabarbarum on her product labels.
- Many American colonists planted rheum rhabarbarum on their properties as it grew more reliably in New England's cool, moist climate than in England's temperate one.