rocket1 (roket)

i. [ Presently an old cock-pheasant came rocketing over me, looking as though the feathers were all being blown out of his tail. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 182. rocket2 (rok'et), n. [Early mod. E. rok at ; roquette , F. roquette = Sp. roquet a , ruqueta , ruchetta , the herb rocket, dim. of ruc a , garden-rocket, eruca , a species of colewort: see Eruca .] 1. In old usage, the salad-plant Eruca sativa . See Eruca. 2. In modern usage, a plant of the genus Hesperis , chiefly H. matronal is , also called dame's-violet or -rocket , gar The Inflorescence of Rocket (Hesperis matronal is). den-rocket, or white rocket. This is a somewhat coarse standard garden plant with racemes of rather large flowers, which are fra grant after dark. They are natural pinkish and single, but in cultivation have double varieties both white and purple. H. trist is is the night-scented rocket or stock.