Rhubarb cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit:- "Rhubarb" originally comes from the two Greek words for rhubarb. "Rheon" from the Persian "rewend", later became the Latin word "rheum", meaning rhubarb. The other Greek word is "rha", an ancient name for the Volga River in Russian, where rhubarb was cultivated, having been introduced there from China via the Silk Road. In medieval Latin, "rheon" and "rha" became "rheum barbarum", literally "foreign rhubarb" or "strange rhubarb", and evolved later into "rheubarbarum". Most likely, the English word "rhubarb" entered the language via the French word "rhubarbe" brought over by
Latin obscenity the Latin word for the vulva ("cunnus") and the verb "to lick" ("linguere", cf. "lingua" "tongue"). These include "sinus", "indentation", and "fossa", "ditch". The modern scientific or polite words "vulva" and "vagina" both stem from Latin, but originally they had different meanings. The word "vāgīna" is the Latin word for scabbard or sword-sheath. "Vulva" (or "volva") in classical Latin generally signified the womb, especially in medical writing, and also it is also common in the Vetus Latina (pre-Jerome) version of the Bible. The meanings of "vagina" and "vulva" have changed by means of metaphor and metonymy, respectively. Other words for