nasturtium

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers
noun aquatic herbs
noun flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings

From Middle English nasturcium, from Old English nasturcium (“watercress”), from Latin nasturtium.

Don’t cast your nasturtiums on my character. — Ulysses, James Joyce
"They are the flowers of the trop[oe]olum, or wild nasturtium. — Adventures of a Young Naturalist, Lucien Biart
Phyllis had planted mignonette and nasturtium and Virginia Stock in hers. — The Railway Children, E. (Edith) Nesbit

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