1. a plant with thick red or green leaf stalks that are cooked and eaten as fruit
2. the edible leaf stalks of this plant used in cooking
3. a heated argument or dispute
Usage: informal

Examples

• She planted rhubarb in her vegetable garden.
• The rhubarb pie was sweet and tangy.
• Fresh rhubarb needs sugar to balance its tartness.
• We harvested the rhubarb stalks in early summer.
• There was a rhubarb between the neighbors over the fence.
• The meeting ended in a rhubarb about budget cuts.
• Strawberry rhubarb jam is a popular combination.