Rhubarb



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. ( 植物) 大黄; n. / v.喧闹
• ［英］ n. / v.喧闹 ( a heated dispute or controversy)
• ［例］ a Roman mob rhubarbing at the Palace door ( 冲着宫殿大门乱嚷嚷的一群罗马暴民)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English rubarbe, from Anglo-French reubarbe, from Medieval Latin reubarbarum, alteration of rha barbarum, literally, barbarian rhubarb
• Date: 15th century
• 1. any of a genus (Rheum) of Asian plants of the buckwheat family having large leaves with thick succulent petioles often used as food; also the petioles of rhubarb
• 2. the dried rhizome and roots of any of several rhubarbs (as Rheum officinale and R. palmatum) grown in China and Tibet and used as a purgative and stomachic
• 3. a heated dispute or controversy

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