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 Rock·et n.  Bot. (a) A cruciferous plant (Eruca sativa) sometimes eaten in Europe as a salad. (b) Damewort. (c) Rocket larkspur. See below.
 Dyer's Rocket. Bot. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
 Rocket larkspur Bot., an annual plant with showy flowers in long racemes (Delphinium Ajacis).
 Sea rocket Bot., either of two fleshy cruciferous plants (Cakile maritima and Cakile Americana) found on the seashore of Europe and America.
 Yellow rocket Bot., a common cruciferous weed with yellow flowers (Barbarea vulgaris).

 Broom n.
 1. Bot. A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, minute leaves, and large yellow flowers.
    No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom.   --Wordsworth.
 2. An implement for sweeping floors, etc., commonly made of the panicles or tops of broom corn, bound together or attached to a long wooden handle; -- so called because originally made of the twigs of the broom.
 Butcher's broom, a plant (Ruscus aculeatus) of the Smilax family, used by butchers for brooms to sweep their blocks; -- called also knee holly. See Cladophyll.
 Dyer's broom, a species of mignonette (Reseda luteola), used for dyeing yellow; dyer's weed; dyer's rocket.
 Spanish broom. See under Spanish.