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nasturtium
/næsˈtɝʃəm/
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What does nasturtium mean?
noun
- The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America.
- A plant in this genus, garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).
- Any of the plants in the genus Nasturtium that includes watercress.
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The little dressmaker bought an envelope of nasturtium seeds at the florist's, and returned to her tiny room in the flat.
Examples of half-hardy annuals are: China aster, alonsoa, balsam, petunia, ricinus, stocks, balloon-vine, martynia, salpiglossis, thunbergia, nasturtium, verbena.
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But the Pieris, which haunts the cabbage, frequents the nasturtium also, and the golden rose-beetle, which "intoxicates itself at the clusters of the hawthorn," is no less addicted to the nectar of the rose.
It made Margery dance, just to read the names,--nasturtium, giant helianthus, coreopsis, calendula, Canterbury bells: more names than I can tell you, and other packages, bigger, that said, "Peas: Dwarf Telephone," and "Sweet Corn," and such things!
The following are commonly used as salads: Dandelion, yellow racket, purslane (pusley), watercress, nasturtium; and the following as greens for cooking: narrow or sour dock, stinging nettle, pokeweed, pigweed or lamb's quarters, black mustard.