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monk's rhubarb
[trans. med.L. Rheubarbarum (or Rha barbarum) Monachorum; cf. F. rhubarbe des moines.]
A name for species of dock, esp. Rumex Patientia and R. alpinus.
1578Langham Gard. Health 197 Drinke one dramme of the roote of the garden Docke, or Monkes rubarb to purge withall. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. lxxviii. 314 The Monkes Rubarbe is called..of some Rhubarbarum Monachorum, or Monkes Rubarbe: because as it should seeme some Monke or other haue used the roote heereof in steed of Rubarbe. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 280 Hippolapathum or Monks-Rhubarb. 1731Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Lapathum, Round-leav'd Alpine Dock, by some call'd Monks Rhubarb. 1866Treas. Bot. 998/1 s.v. Rumex. 1895 J. Shaw in R. Wallace Country Schoolm. (1899) 22 Plants, such as Monks' rhubarb and masterwort, of no value now, but formerly used in poor people's broth.
¶ Erroneously applied to the garden rhubarb, Rheum Rhaponticum.
1737Bracken Farriery Impr. xxv. (1749) 216 Rhaponticum or Monk's Rheubarb. 1832Veg. Subst. Food 310 Monk Rhubarb..is..a native of Asia..; we find it mentioned by Tusser as early as 1573, as being then cultivated in England. |