nasturtium

• n. 旱金莲，旱金莲属植物

来自拉丁语nasturtium,来自nas-,鼻子，-turt,转，扭曲，词源同turn,torque.因这种植物的刺鼻气味而得名。

1. any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers

2. flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings

nasturtium

nasturtium: [17] The nasturtium plant has a peppery taste (its immature flower buds are often used as an alternative to capers), and tradition has it that the Romans named it nasturtium because its pungency made them pucker up their noses. According to this theory, the word is an alteration of an earlier *nāsitortium, which would have been a compound formed from nāsus ‘nose’ and tort-, the past participle stem of torquēre ‘twist’ (source of English torture).

nasturtium (n.)

mid-12c., "plant of the mustard family, like watercress," from Latin nasturtium "cress;" the popular etymology explanation of the name (Pliny) is that it is from Latin *nasitortium, literally "nose-twist," from nasus "nose" (see nose (n.)) + past participle of torquere "to twist" (see torque (n.)); the plant so called for its pungent odor. Modern application to a South American trailing plant with orange flowers first recorded 1704.

The little dressmaker bought an envelope of nasturtium seeds at the florists.

那个个子矮小的女裁缝在花铺里买了一包金莲花种子.

辞典例句

I wouldn't know a nasturtium if I saw one.

即使我看到了一株旱金莲也不认得.

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