"Emodin" is a word in ENGLISH
An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained
from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of
anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei).
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.
Read the complete definitionProvided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.
Read the complete definitionA kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
Read the complete definitionA plant (Rheum Rhaponticum) the leafstalks of which are acid, and are used in making pies; the garden rhubarb.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to a natural order of apetalous plants (Polygonaceae), of which the knotweeds (species of Polygonum) are the …
Read the complete definitionImpregnated or tinctured with rhubarb.
Read the complete definitionPertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).
Read the complete definitionA genus of plants. See Rhubarb.
Read the complete definitionThe root of several species of Rheum, used much as a cathartic medicine.
Read the complete definitionThe name of several large perennial herbs of the genus Rheum and order Polygonaceae.
Read the complete definitionThe large and fleshy leafstalks of Rheum Rhaponticum and other species of the same genus. They are pleasantly acid, and …
Read the complete definitionLike rhubarb.
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