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meaning "foreign rhubarb". The Greek physician Dioscorides used the Greek word ?? , whereas Galen later used ???? , Latin rheum. These in turn derive from a Persian name for species of ''Rheum''. The specific epithet rhaponticum, applying to one of the presumed parents of the cultivated plant, means "rha from the region of the Black Sea"

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