rhubarb

4 definitions • 2 examples

a plant that has long, sour-tasting red and green stems that can be cooked and eaten as a fruit:

Have you ever eaten rhubarb crumble?

a loud argument

a word that is repeated many times in order to produce the sound of people talking when the meaning of the word is not important:

We had to stand at the back of the stage saying "rhubarb, rhubarb" in the crowd scenes.

the long red stems of a plant that are prepared in a pie or as a sweet fruit dish