rocket salad

rocket salad
noun
erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
Member Holonyms: ↑Eruca, ↑genus Eruca

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noun

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rocket2 (def. 2).

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rocket salad,
= rocket2 (def. 2). (Cf.rocket)

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