'Cakile maritima' definitions:
Definition of 'Cakile maritima'
(from WordNet)
noun
Salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy grey-green foliage [syn: sea- rocket, Cakile maritima]
Definition of 'Cakile maritima'
From: GCIDE
- Rocket \Rock"et\, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. [1913 Webster]
- Dyer's Rocket. (Bot.) See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
- Rocket larkspur (Bot.), an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes (Delphinium Ajacis).
- Sea rocket (Bot.), either of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and Cakile Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and America.
- Yellow rocket (Bot.), a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers (Barbarea vulgaris). [1913 Webster]