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
Escargot English of the French word "escargot" to mean "edible snail" dates from 1892. The French word (1549) derives from "escaragol" (Provençal) and thence "escargol" (Old French), and is ultimately – via Vulgar Latin "coculium" and Classical Latin "conchylium" – from the Ancient Greek "konchylion (κογχύλιον)", which meant "edible shellfish, oyster". The "Online Etymological Dictionary" writes, "The form of the word in Provençal and French seems to have been influenced by words related to "scarab"." Not all species of land snail are edible, and many are too small to make it worthwhile to prepare and cook them. Even among the edible