Eruca

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Noun

Eruca - annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean regiongenus Erucadilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbsBrassicaceae, Cruciferae, family Brassicaceae, family Cruciferae, mustard family - a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relativesarugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa, garden rocket, rocket salad, roquette, rocket - erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

Eruca

a plant genus of the family Cruciferae. Members of the genus are annual, rarely perennial, herbs with pinnatisect or pinnatifid leaves. The flowers are usually yellowish or whitish in color; the fruit is a pod with a long rostellum. There are five or six Eruca species in southern Europe, the Caucasus, Western Siberia, and North and East Africa. There is one species, rocket salad (E. sativa), in the USSR; it is an annual with several fleshy leaves. Eruca is encountered as a weed in crops; it is sometimes cultivated as an oil-bearing plant in the southern regions of the USSR, and in Asia Minor, Ethiopia, and India. The seeds contain oil; the leaves are used as salad greens and spice; and mustard is prepared from the stalks.

Eruca

Related to Eruca: Eruca sativa

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Synonyms for Eruca

noun annual to perennial herbs of the Mediterranean region

Synonyms

genus Eruca

Related Words

dilleniid dicot genus
Brassicaceae
Cruciferae
family Brassicaceae
family Cruciferae
mustard family
arugula
Eruca sativa
Eruca vesicaria sativa
garden rocket
rocket salad
roquette
rocket