Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the genus Tropaeolum, native to South and Central America, that have round leaves and pungent edible yellow, orange, or red spurred flowers and are often grown as ornamentals.
- noun A brilliant orange yellow.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
popular name of theTropaeolum genus offlowering plants native tosouth andcentral America . - noun A genus,
Nasturtium , that includeswatercress .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word nasturtium.
Examples
-
Capucine does not fail to disappoint - it is actually a blood-red orange flower, more properly called nasturtium in English.
TheGloss Colleen Williams 2010
-
A nasturtium is a brightly colored edible flower that grows on vines with leaves that look like water-lily pads minus the water.
-
To make it even more confusing, the plant commonly known as nasturtium is not a member of the genus Nasturtium; they’re not even related.
-
A small handful (perhaps 12), young edible flowers, such as nasturtium
-
Some restaurants actually have foragers on their payrolls, and others need to hire artistically talented cooks to plate dishes so that each leaf, each carrot stalk, each nasturtium flower, each pod of immature sweet peas, is placed just so - a serious challenge when tonight's wild harvest contains a surprise crop of newcomers.
Rozanne Gold: Chocolate Dirt: Is It Art or Is It Dinner? Rozanne Gold 2011
-
The flowers I remember from growing up were old-fashioned summer flowers: marigolds, zinnias, calendula, gladiolus, nasturtium, hollyhocks.
2009 May 2009
-
The chef makes his own red wine, Douglas fir pine needle and nasturtium flower vinegars.
-
Some restaurants actually have foragers on their payrolls, and others need to hire artistically talented cooks to plate dishes so that each leaf, each carrot stalk, each nasturtium flower, each pod of immature sweet peas, is placed just so - a serious challenge when tonight's wild harvest contains a surprise crop of newcomers.
Rozanne Gold: Chocolate Dirt: Is It Art or Is It Dinner? Rozanne Gold 2011
-
I like to keep my own seed to save having to buy plants that come easily, such as tagetes, nasturtium, calendula and Californian poppy.
The to-do list: October Dan Pearson 2010
-
On the menu, there's a partial list of what Bell Book & Candle grows, including various herbs, four varieties of nasturtium, lettuces and tomatoes.
brtom commented on the word nasturtium
"-- Me? says Alf. Don't cast your nasturtiums on my character."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12
January 13, 2007
treeseed commented on the word nasturtium
yummy and pretty in salads
February 18, 2008
bilby commented on the word nasturtium
Now let's not start making rude comments about noses.
April 10, 2019