Crossword clues for arugula
arugula
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
arugula \arugula\ n. 1. an erect European annual ( Eruca vesicaria sativa) of the mustard family, often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.
Syn: rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, Eruca sativa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
edible cruciform plant (Eruca sativa) used originally in the Mediterranean region as a salad; the American English and Australian form of the name is (via Italian immigrants) from dialectal variant of Italian ruchetta, a diminutive form of ruca-, from Latin eruca, a name of some cabbage-like plant, from PIE *gher(s)-uka-, from root *ghers- "to bristle" (see horror).\n
\nIn England, the usual name is rocket (see rocket (n.1)), which is from Italian ruchetta via French roquette. It also sometimes is called hedge mustard.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One of three yellowish-flowered Mediterranean herb of the mustard family; which has flavoured leaves, often eaten in salads. Has a distinct, peppery flavor: 2 # ''Eruca sativa'', sometimes (taxlink Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa subspecies noshow=1) 3 # ''Eruca vesicaria'' 4 # (taxlink Diplotaxis tenuifolia species noshow=1)
WordNet
n. erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender [syn: rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa]
Usage examples of "arugula".
I utterly ignore her, to no avail, and while she's in midsentence – Page Six, Jackie O – I resort to waving our waiter over and ordering the cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill, an arugula Caesar salad and swordfish meat loaf with kiwi mustard, even though I already ordered this and he tells me so.
Not much to remember: a watery Bellini, soggy arugula salad, a sullen waitress.
He’d already picked some of Ruth’s arugula off her salad plate with his fingers.
It is also a country that is always reluctant to raise the minimum wage because, my God, the cost of the arugula salad at Le Crap might go up from eleven to thirteen dollars, as if anyone who’d pay eleven dollars for a salad would notice.
A third tray contained a bowl of arugula and romaine lettuces beside a heated crock of what looked and smelled like the recipe I'd shown him for a hot port wine and chèvre dressing.
Where plaintiff further alleges that these impediments to its removal were swept away by the appeals court decision reversing this major provision in Szyrk, supra, defendant's disclaimer on grounds of the lack of a demolition permit required by municipal ordinance for such a procedure which, in the usual course of events would be issued by and to itself, has provoked the further charge of conspiracy wherein plaintiff cites the prominent presence on the Village Board of one Mel Kandino-poulls as chief obstacle to such issuance, submitting in evidence the expanding premises of Mel's Kandy Kitchen in the form of a sunny new dining area overlooking Cyclone Seven and a printer's dummy of a projected new menu offering quiche Lorraine, caesar salad with arugula, sangria and similar enticements to the sophisticated palates of prosperous out of town visitors where hoagies and a Bud by local custom had hitherto prevailed.