arugula

Other forms of arugula

plural

arugulas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about arugula

What does arugula mean?

arugula means "erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender".

How many syllables are in arugula?

arugula has 4 syllables: a-ru-gu-la. The stress falls on "ru". In IPA it is /ˌɑˈɹuɡulə/.

What is another word for arugula?

Close synonyms include rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, Eruca sativa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arugula a common word?

arugula is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.