- Sea rocket
- Sea rocket \Sea" rock"et\(Bot.) See under {Rocket}. [1913 Webster]
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Sea rocket — Rocket Rock et, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. [1913 Webster] {Dyer s Rocket}.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sea rocket — noun : a plant of the genus Cakile * * * sea rocket noun A fleshy cruciferous seaside plant (genus Cakile) • • • Main Entry: ↑sea … Useful english dictionary
sea rocket — ▪ plant any of about seven species of plants constituting the genus Cakile, of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), native to seashore regions of North America, Eurasia, western Asia, and Australia, and to central Arabian deserts. C. maritima … Universalium
sea rocket — /ˈsi rɒkət/ (say see rokuht) noun any succulent plant of the genus Cakile which occurs on coastal sand, especially C. maritima …
sea-rocket — noun salt tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy grey green foliage • Syn: ↑Cakile maritima • Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant • Member Holonyms: ↑Cakile, ↑genus Cakile … Useful english dictionary
rocket — rocket1 [räk′it] n. [It rocchetta, spool or bobbin, rocket, orig. dim. of rocca, distaff < OHG roccho, distaff: from the resemblance in shape] 1. any of various devices, typically cylindrical, containing liquid or solid propellants which when… … English World dictionary
Rocket — Rock et, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. [1913 Webster] {Dyer s Rocket}. (Bot.) See … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Rocket larkspur — Rocket Rock et, n. [F. roquette (cf. Sp. ruqueta, It ruchetta), fr. L. eruca.] (Bot.) (a) A cruciferous plant ({Eruca sativa}) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below. [1913 Webster] {Dyer s Rocket}.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Sea Launch — is a spacecraft launch service that uses a mobile sea platform for equatorial launches of commercial payloads on specialized Zenit 3SL rockets. As of July 2008 it had assembled and launched 28 rockets with two failures and one partial failure.The … Wikipedia
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