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Noun: sweet rocket
  1. Long cultivated herb having flowers whose scent is more pronounced in the evening; naturalized throughout Europe to Siberia and into North America
    "The fragrance of sweet rocket filled the evening garden";
    - damask violet, Dame's violet, Hesperis matronalis

Derived forms: sweet rockets

Type of: flower

Part of: genus Hesperis, Hesperis

Encyclopedia: Sweet rocket