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 Translation for 'rhubarb' from English to Croatian
NOUN   a rhubarb | rhubarbs
SYNO pieplant | rhubarb | rhubarb plant
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rabarbara {f}
rhubarb [Rheum rhabarbarum]
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Translation for 'rhubarb' from English to Croatian

rhubarb [Rheum rhabarbarum]
rabarbara {f}bot.T
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Usage Examples English
  • In the early 20th century, rhubarb was grown in the surrounding area, the region known as the Rhubarb Triangle.
  • "Rheum officinale", the Chinese rhubarb, is a rhubarb from the family Polygonaceae native to China.
  • Bramley and Swinnow were part of the Leeds rhubarb fields, a part of the so-called 'Rhubarb Triangle', which accounted for a large portion of British rhubarb production from the 1800s until the second world war.
  • It is celebrated for its rhubarb growing, and is at the centre of the Rhubarb Triangle.
  • The Oxford English Dictionary dates the name "rhubarb triangle" to a 1965 textbook mentioning pre-war trains called "rhubarb specials" that ran from the West Riding rhubarb triangle to London and it was mentioned in the "Guardian" newspaper in 1986.

  • In season 2, episode 3 ("Potato") of "Blackadder", Captain Redbeard Rum (played by Tom Baker) can be heard saying "rhubarb, rhubarb!
  • In the Rhubarb Triangle area of West Yorkshire, England, forced rhubarb is commercially grown in dark sheds and harvested by candlelight.
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