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PIE PLANT
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves
Synonyms:
garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum
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Hypernyms ("pie plant" is a kind of...):
rhubarb; rhubarb plant (plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous)