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Noun: pieplant  'pI,plant
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: rhubarb)
  1. Long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
    "She used pieplant to make a tangy rhubarb pie";
    - rhubarb
Noun: pie plant
Usage: N. Amer (elsewhere: rhubarb)
  1. 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