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Nasturtium

noun
1.
Any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers.
2.
Aquatic herbs.  Synonym: genus Nasturtium.
3.
Flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings.



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"Nasturtium" Quotes from Famous Books



... while Lady Mary and Sir Wemyss were with us, I made a lobster salad for them. I always use nasturtium stems in the mayonnaise for a lobster, and mix the blossoms in for garnishing and to ...
— At Home with the Jardines • Lilian Bell
... n. The Nasturtium palustre, De C., N.O. Cruciferae, is so called, but in spite of its name it is not endemic in Australia. In New Zealand, the name is sometimes applied ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris
... first it was bordered by fields on either side, but villas soon began to spring up, and presently the girls reached what looked like a long, low 'cottage residence,' but was really two, with a verandah along the front, and a garden divided in the middle by a paling covered with canary nasturtium shrubs. The verandah on one side was hung with a rich purple pall of the dark clematis, on the other by a Gloire de Dijon rose. There were bright flower beds, and the dormer windows over the verandah looked like smiling eyes under their deep brows of creeper- trimmed verge-board. What ...
— The Two Sides of the Shield • Charlotte M. Yonge


Words linked to "Nasturtium" :   herbaceous plant, family Brassicaceae, genus Tropaeolum, Tropaeolum minus, flavoring, mustard family, Nasturtium amphibium, seasoning, canarybird flower, Brassicaceae, common watercress, Tropaeolum, Tropaeolum peregrinum, family Cruciferae, canarybird vine, dilleniid dicot genus, flavouring, flavorer, seasoner, flavourer, Tropaeolum majus, canary creeper, Indian cress, Cruciferae, herb


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