PIE PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pie plant mean? 

• PIE PLANT (noun)
  The noun PIE PLANT has 1 sense:

1. long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves

  Familiarity information: PIE PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIE PLANT (noun)

Meaning:

Long cultivated hybrid of Rheum palmatum; stems often cooked in pies or as sauce or preserves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

garden rhubarb; pie plant; Rheum cultorum; Rheum rhabarbarum; Rheum rhaponticum

Hypernyms ("pie plant" is a kind of...):

rhubarb; rhubarb plant (plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous)