rocket salad

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsrocketroquettegarden rocketarugulaEruca sativaEruca vesicaria sativa

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   Part ofEruca

Questions about rocket salad

What does rocket salad mean?

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

What is another word for rocket salad?

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

rocket salad 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.