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单词 stick rhubarb
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stick rhubarb
stick rhubarb n. Obsolete the dried rootstock of a variety of rhubarb, Rheum palmatum (family Polygonaceae), used medicinally as a purgative and astringent; (also) the long, fleshy, typically pale-red leaf-stalks of garden rhubarb, R. rhabarbarum, which are cooked and eaten; cf. rhubarb n. I. R. palmatum is also called Chinese rhubarb.
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1837 London Med. Gaz. 21 Jan. 605/1 Stick rhubarb,..in the drug trade it is believed to be procured from the young roots of the same species as that yielding the dressed rhubarb.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 451/1 Stick rhubarb is sold in the herb shops, and is in long pieces.
1871 Riddell's Indian Domest. Econ. & Receipt Bk. (ed. 7) xxvi. 413 In England, green gooseberries, apples, stick rhubarb and other acid fruits may be substituted.
1906 A. J. Rice-Oxley tr. A. Gautier Diet & Dietetics 429 Invalids..must abstain from incompletely developed vegetables, or those rich in oxalic acid: green haricots in the pod, sorrel, spinach, stick rhubarb.
1929 Chemist & Druggist 13 July 75/2 The slender ends of the roots, air dried, [are sold] as ‘stick rhubarb’.
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