rhubarb
RHUBARB
radix Pontica (Celsus; rha in very late writers; Ammianus): *rheum rhaponticum (Linn.).
radix Pontica (Celsus; rha in very late writers; Ammianus): *rheum rhaponticum (Linn.).
rhubarb: radix Pontica, Cels. 5, 23, 3: rha (so named from the river), Amm. 22, 8, 28: rheu barbarum, Isid. Orig. 17, 9: perh. also rhecoma (rhacoma), Plin. 27, 12, 105: *rheum rhaponticum (Linn.).