Nasturtium
WordNet

noun


(1)   Flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings
(2)   Aquatic herbs
(3)   Any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers
WiktionaryText

Noun



  1. The popular name of the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.

Quotations

  • 1922, Katherine Mansfield, At The Bay, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 281
    Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
 
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