Word Meanings - RHEUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of plants. See Rhubarb.

GENUS
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
RHUBARBY
Like rhubarb.
RHUBARB
The name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceæ. 2. The large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and are used in cookery. Called
SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.