garden rocket

Questions about garden rocket

What does garden rocket mean?

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

What is another word for garden rocket?

Close synonyms include rocket, roquette, rocket salad, arugula, 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 garden rocket a common word?

garden rocket 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.