sea-rocket

1. 1.

   salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy grey-green foliage

   SynonymsCakile maritima

   Broaderherb

   Part ofCakile

Questions about sea-rocket

What does sea-rocket mean?

sea-rocket means "salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy grey-green foliage".

How many syllables are in sea-rocket?

sea-rocket has 4 syllables: se-a--roc-ket. The stress falls on "a-".

What is another word for sea-rocket?

Close synonyms include Cakile maritima. 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 sea-rocket a common word?

sea-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.