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• This recipe calls for three kinds of fruit: strawberries, cherries, and rhubarb. Well, strictly speaking, rhubarb is a vegetable.From the entry strictly speaking
• I don’t oversugar my rhubarb, so this amount suits me perfectly.2015, Cheryl Sternman Rule, “Strawberry-Rhubarb Compote”, in Yogurt Culture: A Global Look at How to Make, Bake, Sip, and Chill the…. From the entry oversugar
• I look over and see that the ingredients for this would be turnip, rhubarb and cabbage.2012, Pauline McLynn, Jenny Q, Stitched Up. From the entry yumtastic
• I have rhubarb frozen from a year ago, packaged in standard twist-tied freezer storage bags.2003 August 26, Dan, “Frozen Rhubarb”, in rec.crafts.winemaking (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026. From the entry freezery
• I said rhubarb, rhubarb to oblige her, but I felt like a charlatan.2001, Sheila Rowbotham, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties. From the entry rhubarb rhubarb
• Blackcurrants and redcurrants, gooseberries, raspberries and rhubarb grow amongst viburnums, hollyhocks, sweet williams, forsythia, and a medlar.1989, Mirabel Osler, A Gentle Plea for Chaos, published 2011, page 173. From the entry red currant
• But, she added, more modern interpretations could include anything from rhubarb and blueberries to panko, goat cheese and broccoli.2007 September 12, Melissa Clark, “Extra Crunch for the Kugel”, in New York Times. From the entry panko
• For the rhubarb compôte, wash, trim and slice the rhubarb.2007, Gary Hunter, Terry Tinton, Patrick Carey, Stephen Walpole, “Desserts”, in Professional Chef – Level 2 S/NVQ, Cengage Learning…. From the entry compôte
• Place all the compôte ingredients together into a saucepan and slowly stew until the rhubarb has cooked through.2007, Gary Hunter, Terry Tinton, Patrick Carey, Stephen Walpole, “Desserts”, in Professional Chef – Level 2 S/NVQ, Cengage Learning…. From the entry compôte
• I want tortes filled with warm rhubarb compote.2006, Aline Brosh McKenna, Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, spoken by Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). From the entry torte
• Venetian women who wanted coppery hair colors applied bleaching mixtures, such as one that contained alum, sulfur, soda, and rhubarb.2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, page 155. From the entry coppery
• To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003, Ulysses Travel Guides, page 46. From the entry ketchup
• I'd be using this years rhubarb too.2003 August 26, Dan, “Frozen Rhubarb”, in rec.crafts.winemaking (Usenet), archived from the original on 13 Apr 2026. From the entry freezery
• The province was described as economically important because of its vast production of salt, as well as fine rhubarb and ginger.2002, James Robert Enterline, “Foundations of European Misunderstandings”, in Erikson, Eskimos & Columbus: Medieval European Knowledge of…. From the entry kiang
• Not allowed to blah blah blah rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb.1998, Brigid Lowry, Guitar Highway Rose. From the entry rhubarb rhubarb
• And there is a little rhubarb and shape.1918 March, Rebecca West [pseudonym; Cicily Isabel Fairfield], chapter IV, in The Return of the Soldier, 1st American edition, New York…. From the entry shape
• I don't want to anger the nation's greengrocers, but I've found Marks & Spencer's sell rhubarb that is reliably pink all the year around.2012, Nigella Lawson, Forever Summer. From the entry pucest
• He wrote: “From distant Tibet they bring saffron and sal ammoniac; orange peel and litchis from Canton; mushrooms and huang ch'i from Mongolia; rhubarb from Szechuan, etc."2012, Tao Feiya, “The Evolution of European Missionaries' Views on Chinese Medicine”, in Chinese Studies in History, volume 46, number 2. From the entry Huang-ch'i
• She saw the shiny knob-end of the rhubarb thrusting upwards upon the thick red stem, thrusting itself like a knob of flame through the soft soil.1949, David Herbert Lawrence, The Rainbow, page 414. From the entry knob-end

Meaning of rhubarb

1. noun Any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous).
2. noun The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb (usually known as Rheum × hybridum), which are long, fleshy, often pale red, and with a tart taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stewed with sugar and made into jam or used in crumbles, pies, etc.
3. noun The dried rhizome and roots of Rheum palmatum (Chinese rhubarb) or Rheum officinale (Tibetan rhubarb), from China, used as a laxative and purgative.

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How do you use rhubarb in a sentence?

Rhubarb is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “Driving home yesterday, I almost hit the rhubarb.”

What is a short sentence with rhubarb?

“Naturally, a rhubarb.”

What does rhubarb mean?

Rhubarb means any plant of the genus Rheum, especially Rheum rhabarbarum, having large leaves and long green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous).