🇬🇧 Rhubarb meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Rhubarb is a plant with thick red or pink stalks that look a bit like red celery. The stalks taste very sour if you eat them plain, so people usually cook them with sugar to make pies, jams, and desserts. Only the stalks are eaten; the leaves are not safe to eat.

I bit into a raw rhubarb stalk and my face turned so sour it could have powered a car battery.

Our dog stole a piece of rhubarb pie and then made the exact same face I make doing math homework.

My evil plan is to open a rhubarb-only restaurant and call it The Sour Tower.

The wizard offered me a choice: a bag of gold or unlimited rhubarb pie; I said, “I’ll need a fork first.”

Rhubarb is so sour that people almost always cook it with lots of sugar, and only the colorful stalks are eaten because the leaves can make you sick.

A woman carried bright red rhubarb stalks home. She scrubbed the rhubarb stems, trimmed the green leaves, and chopped rhubarb into small pieces. The sharp smell made her laugh; she stirred rhubarb with sugar and butter, then baked the rhubarb into a warm pie. The first hot slice made her eyes light and she clapped.

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