indian rhubarb

Questions about indian rhubarb

What does indian rhubarb mean?

indian rhubarb means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for indian rhubarb?

Close synonyms include umbrella plant, Darmera peltata, Peltiphyllum peltatum, Himalayan rhubarb, red-veined pie plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indian rhubarb a common word?

indian rhubarb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.