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noun
A yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads, that has a distinct, peppery flavor, of three species:
Eruca spp., especially Eruca sativa (syn. Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads, that has a distinct, peppery flavor, of three species:
Diplotaxis tenuifolia
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
History
Probably from a Southern Italian dialect word equivalent to Standard Italian rucola, whence also, since c. 1967, English rucola. Also cognate to rocket (“plant”), eruca, roquette.
Across languages
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