HyperDic: genus_rheum

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Rheum:
NOUNplantgenus Rheum, Rheumrhubarb
English > genus Rheum: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningrhubarb.
SynonymRheum
Member ofPolygonaceae, family Polygonaceae, buckwheat familyA family of plants of order Polygonales chiefly of the north temperate zone
MembersHimalayan rhubarb, Indian rhubarb, red-veined pie plant, Rheum australe, Rheum emodiAsian herb (Himalayas)
rhubarb, rhubarb plantplants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps
Broaderdicot genus, magnoliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
Spanishgénero rheum, genus rheum, rheum
Catalangenus rheum, rheum

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