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noun erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender
originProbably 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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