English-Portuguese translations for rhubarb

• ruibarbo
  Até o ruibarbo é mencionado, mas resistirei a fazer piadas; direi apenas que, ao contrário da UE, a indústria não quer falar do ruibarbo, só quer cultivá-lo! Rhubarb gets a mention as well, but I shall resist the obvious joke, except to say that unlike the EU, the industry does not want to talk rhubarb, it only wants to grow it!
  Quase 90% do ruibarbo cultivado em espaços interiores na Europa eram, até há pouco tempo, produzidos no Yorkshire; essa percentagem pode ter diminuído, mas a qualidade não diminuiu certamente. Nearly 90% of Europe's indoor-grown rhubarb was, until recently, produced in Yorkshire; that figure may have declined, but the quality has certainly not declined.
  Senhora Presidente, Parma é famosa pelo seu presunto e a Região de Champagne pelo seu champanhe, mas interrogo-me quantos colegas aqui presentes sabem que o Yorkshire é famoso pelo seu ruibarbo. 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