Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - rhubarb
Rhubarb
rhubarb
n. 1 a any of various plants of the genus Rheum, esp. R. rhaponticum, producing long fleshy dark-red leaf-stalks used cooked as food. b the leaf-stalks of this. 2 a a root of a Chinese and Tibetan plant of the genus Rheum. b a purgative made from this. 3 a colloq. a murmurous conversation or noise, esp. the repetition of the word 'rhubarb' by crowd actors. b sl. nonsense; worthless stuff. 4 US sl. a heated dispute. Etymology: ME f. OF r(e)ubarbe, shortening of med.L r(h)eubarbarum, alt. (by assoc. with Gk rheon rhubarb) of rhabarbarum foreign 'rha', ult. f. Gk rha + barbaros foreign
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noun Etymology: Middle English rubarbe, from Anglo-French reubarbe, from Medieval Latin reubarbarum, alteration of rha barbarum, literally, barbarian ~ Date: 15th century any of a genus (Rheum) of Asian plants of the buckwheat family having large leaves with thick succulent petioles often used as food, the dried rhizome and roots of any of several ~s (as Rheum officinale and R. palmatum) grown in China and Tibet and used as a purgative and stomachic, a heated dispute or controversy ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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