indian rhubarb

Questions about indian rhubarb

What is another word for indian rhubarb?

It depends which indian rhubarb you mean. In the sense “rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California”, the synonyms are umbrella plant, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum. Across all 2 senses there are 7 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of indian rhubarb?

WordNet records no antonym for indian rhubarb. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Why are the synonyms for indian rhubarb split into groups?

Because indian rhubarb carries 2 recorded senses and each has its own set of substitutes. A single flat list would put words from unrelated meanings side by side with nothing to tell them apart, which is exactly how a writer picks the wrong one. The grouping comes from WordNet's synsets, not from an editorial judgement of ours.

Where do the synonyms for indian rhubarb come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of indian rhubarb

• Full entry for indian rhubarbAll 2 senses, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for indian rhubarbWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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