wall rocket
noun
: any of several Old World herbs (genus Diplotaxis) of the mustard family
especially
: a yellow-flowered European herb (D. tenuifolia) naturalized in North America
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The images took Saudi Twitter by storm: Thousands of purple wall rocket flowers poke from the rocks, a velvet blanket enveloping the black mountains; bright new green grass sprouts from the red sands below like some mystical ocean.
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Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
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Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2023
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“Wall rocket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall%20rocket. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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