Noun: pieplant 'pI,plant
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: rhubarb)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: rhubarb)
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: rhubarb)
- Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
"She used pieplant to make a tangy rhubarb pie";
- rhubarb
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: rhubarb)
- Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves
"She made a strawberry rhubarb pie from the pie plant in her garden";
- garden rhubarb, Rheum cultorum, Rheum rhabarbarum, Rheum rhaponticum, rhubarb
Derived forms: pie plants, pieplants
Type of: rhubarb, rhubarb plant, veg [Brit, informal], vegetable, veggie [informal]
Encyclopedia: Pieplant
Pie plant