单词 | nasturtium |
释义 | nasturtium /na sterr"sheuhm, neuh-/, n. any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, cultivated for its showy, usually orange, red, or yellow flowers or for its fruit, which is pickled and used like capers. [1560-70; < L nasturtium, nasturcium a kind of cress, taken to mean, perh. by folk etym., something that wrings the nose (referring to its acrid smell). See NOSE, TORT, -IUM] |
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