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rhubarb

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long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened

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pieplant

Other meanings

2. noun

plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous

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