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Arugula

//əˈɹuɡələ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads, that has a distinct, peppery flavor, of three species:; Eruca spp., especially Eruca sativa (syn. Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa) countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender wordnet
  3. 3
    A yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family with flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads, that has a distinct, peppery flavor, of three species:; Diplotaxis tenuifolia countable, uncountable

Etymology

Probably from a Southern Italian dialect word equivalent to Standard Italian rucola, whence also, since c. 1967, English rucola. Also cognate to rocket (“plant”), eruca, roquette.

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