Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cruciferous plant of the genus Cakile.
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- noun salt-tolerant seashore annual grown for its fragrant rose or violet flowers and fleshy grey-green foliage
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It looked too arid to support life, but sea-rocket with fleshy emerald stems and lilac flowers was scattered about.
Old Junk 1915
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