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Proper noun

Eruca f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Brassicaceae – rocket and closely related plants.
2. A taxonomic genus within the family Saturniidae – certain saturniid moths.
3. (obsolete) Citheronia

Hypernyms

• (genus of Brassicaceae): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids II - clades; Brassicales - order; Brassicaceae - family; Brassiceae - tribe
• (genus in Saturniidae): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Animalia - kingdom; Bilateria - subkingdom; Protostomia - infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa - superphylum; Arthropoda - phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Pterygota - subclass; Neoptera - infraclass; Lepidoptera - order; Glossata - suborder; Heteroneura - infraorder; Ditrysia - division; Cossina - section; Bombycina - subsection; Bombycoidea - superfamily; Saturniiformes - series; Saturniidae - family; Ceratocampinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

• (genus of Brassicaceae): Eruca loncholoma, Eruca pinnatifida, Eruca sativa, Eruca setulosa, Eruca vesicaria - species

in Brassicaceae

• Eruca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Eruca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Eruca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Eruca at USDA Plants database
• Eruca on Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Eruca at the Catalogue of Life 
• Eruca at Encyclopedia of Life
• Eruca at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Eruca at The Plant List
• Eruca at Brassibase

English

Noun

eruca ‎(plural erucae)

1. (zoology) An insect in the larval state; a caterpillar; a larva.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer(s)-uk-eh₂^[1], from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰers- ‎(“to bristle”), see also Welsh garw ‎(“rough”), Latin ēr ‎(“hedgehog”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(zarshayamna-, “ruffling one's feathers”), Sanskrit हर्षते ‎(harṣate, “bristles”).

Latin erūca and its variant urūca denote the plant and the caterpillar. In such cases, usually the animal name is primary and has been extended to the plant (so the rocket can be interpreted as “caterpillar plant”).^[2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eːˈruː.ka/

Noun

ērūca f ‎(genitive ērūcae); first declension

1. caterpillar
2. colewort, rocket

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

See also

• brūchus

References

• eruca in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eruca in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ERUCA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “eruca”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of English, 3rd ed. (2010)
2. ↑ “eruca” in: Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, ISBN 978-88-00-20781-2