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 for urine was "ūrīna", which is attested in Latin as early as Cicero, and became the usual polite term. The relationship with the Greek verb ("oureō"), "to urinate", is not clear. In Classical Latin, however, the verb "ūrīnārī" meant "to dive into water", and "ūrīnātor" was "a diver", "ūrīnantēs" "those who dive". Catullus (37) writes contemptuously of a certain Spaniard who was one of the lovers of his girlfriend Lesbia: Another word for urine, but less commonly used, was "lōtium". This word relates to "lavāre", "to wash". The Romans, innocent of soap, collected urine as a source of ammonia to