eruca vesicaria sativa

Questions about eruca vesicaria sativa

What does eruca vesicaria sativa mean?

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

What is another word for eruca vesicaria sativa?

Close synonyms include rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula. 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 eruca vesicaria sativa a common word?

eruca vesicaria sativa is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.