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Definition of Rocket salad
1. Noun. Erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
Group relationships: Eruca, Genus Eruca
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Definition of Rocket salad
1. Noun. rocket, arugula ¹
2. Noun. a salad that uses the leaves of this plant as its main ingredient ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Rocket-salad, or properly Roquette, is a low- growing hardy annual (Eruca saliva)
native to southern Europe. The young leaves are used by French and Italian ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Rocket-salad, or properly Roquette, is a low- growing hardy annual (Eruca sativa)
native to southern Europe. The young leaves are used by French and Italian ..."
3. The Book of Vegetables and Garden Herbs: A Practical Handbook and Planting by Allen French (1907)
"... ROCKET-SALAD, or ROQUETTE (Eruca sativa) is a salad-plant, well known in France
and England, but little cultivated here. It is occasionally used as a ..."
4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"... plants followed by steam' sterilization of the soil is the only remedy.
jw TOUMEY. 3429. A crown-Rail. HH WHETZEL.V ROQUETTE, or ROCKET-SALAD (Eruca ..."
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