Plant grown for its stalks

Usage examples of rhubarb.

Chemically this Love Apple contains citric and malic acids: and it further possesses oxalic acid, or oxalate of potash, in common with the Sorrel of our fields, and the Rhubarb of our kitchen gardens.

He was engaged in digging, gently and not too actively, in the nice soft, dungy earth where the rhubarb grew.

I dip a stick of jicama sparingly into a rhubarb mustard sauce, pretending to ignore him.

Norfolk has its windmills, Kent has its oast houses, and we have rhubarb sheds.

She finds the box of Saltines in the cupboard, spreads some rhubarb between two crackers, and eats it.

All-heal, with Spurge and Fennel, Saffron and Parsley, Elder and Snake-root, with opium in some form, and roasted rhubarb and the Four Great Cold Seeds, and the two Resins, of which it used to be said that whatever the Tacamahaca has not cured, the Caranna will, with the more familiar Scammony and Jalap and Black Hellebore, made up a good part of his probable list of remedies.

She had promised herself that she would pick that same rhubarb and make an excellent pie, but in spite of this the rhubarb remained unpicked, perhaps be cause the thought of going to all that trouble just for herself seemed pointless, or perhaps because her ap petite had decreased so sharply, so much so that the unexpected sight of herself in an old-fashioned pier- glass in one of the spare bedrooms shocked her into realising how much weight she must have lost.

The best that could be arranged for the President were a small bedroom and sitting room in a boardinghouse kept by two maiden sisters named Barnes, one of whom provided the ailing Adams with a down comforter, while the other dosed him with a purgative of rhubarb and calomel.

Muffins, johnnycake, rhubarb upside-down cake, jelly-rolls, pies, blueberry grunt, yards of shortbread, hundreds of tea biscuits.

Angela between them conjured up homemade soup, trout with almonds, lamb cutlets with spinach from the garden and a rhubarb crumble with cream.

How long would it have taken small doses of calomel and rhubarb to save as many children?

All I know is that the basis for this sacred, inspiring, mystical potion is a plant that grows in the Persian highlands and resembles, I am told, what you people call rhubarb.

John's wort and Clown's All-heal, with Spurge and Fennel, Saffron and Parsley, Elder and Snake-root, with opium in some form, and roasted rhubarb and the Four Great Cold Seeds, and the two Resins, of which it used to be said that whatever the Tacamahaca has not cured, the Caranna will, with the more familiar Scammony and Jalap and Black Hellebore, made up a good part of his probable list of remedies.

He supposed that if in real life Addie had ever stubbed out one of her chain-smoked cigarettes and unzipped his fly he'd have gone limp as month-old rhubarb but still he liked to sit with his knee pressed accidentally on purpose up against her thigh while she asked her reporter's ever-serious questions.

He found a still flourishing patch of rhubarb, a few scrawny rosebushes with red hips waiting for the winter birds, a patch of iris so crowded that corms had been pushed above the surface of the ground.