English-Greek translations for rhubarb

• ραβέντι
  Κυρία Πρόεδρε, η Πάρμα είναι διάσημη για το ζαμπόν της και η περιοχή της Καμπανίας για τη σαμπάνια της, αλλά αναρωτιέμαι πόσοι συνάδελφοι γνωρίζουν ότι το Yorkshire είναι διάσημο για το ραβέντι του. Madam President, Parma is famous for its ham and the Champagne region for its champagne, but I wonder how many colleagues here realise that Yorkshire is famous for its rhubarb.

Definition of rhubarb

• Any plant#Noun|plant of the genus ''Rheum'', especially , having large leaves and long green#Adjective|green or reddish acidic leafstalks that are edible, in particular when cooked (although the leaves are mildly poisonous
• The leafstalks of common rhubarb or garden rhubarb , which are long, fleshy, often pale#Adjective|pale red, and with a tart#Adjective|tart taste#Noun|taste, used as a food ingredient; they are frequently stew#Verb|stewed with sugar#Noun|sugar and made into jam#Noun|jam or used in crumble#Noun|crumbles, pies, etc
• The dried rhizome and roots of or , from China, used as a laxative and purgative
• operations by aircraft involving low-level flight#Noun|flight to seek opportunistic target#Noun|targets
• Of the colour#Noun|colour of rhubarb: either brownish-yellow , or pale#Adjective|pale red (often the colour of the leafstalks of common rhubarb
• Of fighter aircraft: to fire#Verb|fire at a target#Noun|target opportunistically
• General background noise#Noun|noise caused by several simultaneous indecipherable conversations, which is created in film#Noun|films, stage#Noun|stage play#Noun|plays, etc., by actors repeat#Verb|repeating the word ''rhubarb''; ''hence'', such noise in other settings; rhubarb rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb
• An excited, angry exchange of words, especially at a sporting event
• A brawl#Noun|brawl
• Of an actor in a film, stage play, etc.: to repeat the word ''rhubarb'to create the sound of indistinct conversation; ''hence'', to converse#Verb|converse indistinctly, to mumble#Verb|mumble
• To articulate#Verb|articulate indistinctly or mumble ; to say inconsequential or vague things because one does not know what to say, or to stall#Verb|stall for time#Noun|time

Related words

• Rhubarb Jam
• giant rhubarb
• Guatemalan rhubarb