1. plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous; [syn: rhubarb, rhubarb plant]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
rhubarb plant
n 1: plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks
growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are
edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous [syn: rhubarb,
rhubarb plant]