'Eruca sativa' definitions:
Definition of 'Eruca sativa'
From: WordNet
noun
Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender [syn: rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa]
Definition of 'Eruca sativa'
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]