nasturtium

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These, seasoned with wild onions, nasturtium, and prairie-turnips--which Lucien had gathered along the route,--made a dish that was far from unpalatable.

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  1. noun Any of various New World plants of the genus Tropaeolum, having pungent juice and long-spurred, usually yellow, orange, or red irregular flowers.
  2. noun A brilliant orange yellow.

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  • The cottages, low-roofed, small-windowed, were inconvenient and picturesque, as they had always been – front gardens ablaze with dahlia, nasturtium, phlox, sunflower, and hollyhock; back gardens neatly stocked with carrot, onion, turnip, beet, and all the cabbage family, and guarded by ancient fruit trees heavy with apples, pears, and plums. —  The Key - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 08
  • A small handful (perhaps 12), young edible flowers, such as nasturtium —  Ottaway Online Editors
  • Vast jars were filled with preserves so rich that there was no need of keeping the air from them; they could be opened, that is, the paper cover taken off, and used as desired; there was no fear of fermentation, souring, or moulding The housewives pickled samphire, fennel, purple cabbage, nasturtium-buds, green walnuts, lemons, radish-pods, barberries, elder-buds, parsley, mushrooms, asparagus, and many kinds of fish and fruit. —  Home Life in Colonial Days
  • To these we may add, if we take herbs in the Scriptural sense, nasturtium, and that toothsome esculent, the onion, as well as lettuce. —  Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
  • Up to this time the ground is kept open and clean by cultivation; afterwards the borage will usually have possession Uses._--More popular than the use of the foliage as a potherb and a salad is the employment of borage blossoms and the tender upper leaves, in company or not with those of nasturtium, as a garnish or an ornament to salads, and still more as an addition to various cooling drinks. —  Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
 

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  1. Middle English nasturcium, a kind of cress, from Latin nasturtium : perhaps nāsus, nose; see nas- in Indo-European roots + *tortāre, frequentative of torquēre, to twist (from its pungent smell); see terkw- in Indo-European roots.
 

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