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nasturtium|næˈstɜːʃ(ɪ)əm|
Also 6–8 -cium.
[a. L. nasturtium, so named, acc. to Pliny, from its pungency (‘nomen accepit a narium tormento’): cf. F. nasitort.]
1. a. A genus of cruciferous plants having a pungent taste, of which the best-known representative is the Watercress (N. officinale); also, a plant belonging to this genus. Now only Bot.
1570Foxe A. & M. 1156/2 This was some mery deuill, or els had eaten with his teeth some Nasturcium before. 1602R. T. Five Godlie Serm. 101 The Nasturcium of the Persians..I take to be a more precious and soueraigne plant than our common Cresses, although it be vulgarly deemed the same. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 195 Sow also..Cabbages, Cresses, Nasturtium, Fennel [etc.]. 1696Phillips (ed. 5), Nasturtium, the name of a Plant, otherwise called Nosesmart, or Cresses. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., The leaves of the nasturtiums are divided and cut into segments. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVII. 513/1 The nasturtium grows on the brinks of rivulets and water ditches. 1837Wheelwright tr. Aristophanes II. 261 What prat'st thou of nasturtiums?
†b. sweet nasturtium: (see quot.). Obs.—1
1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 21 It is call'd Cardamome, or sweet Nasturtium, because it has a smell much like the Nasturtium.
¶ Used jocularly in place of aspersion.
1922Joyce Ulysses 315 Don't cast your nasturtiums on my character. 1933D. L. Sayers Murder must Advertise i. 22 He's been a long time in the firm and doesn't like any nasturtiums cast at it. 1970Guardian 2 Feb. 9/4 No nasturtiums are cast upon anyone's actual hormones.
2. a. A trailing plant of the S. American genus Tropæolum, commonly cultivated in gardens for its showy orange-coloured flowers; Indian Cress.
Now usually denoting the larger species Tropæolum majus, introduced from Peru in 1686, but at first applied to T. minus (also from Peru), known in this country from 1596, and at first called Nasturtium Indicum.[1629Parkinson Parad. v. 281 Nasturtium Indicum, by which name it is now generally..called. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Nasturtium Indicum, Indian Cresses, the Flowers of which smell, and look very pleasantly. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 369 Sow some Seeds of the Nasturtium Indicum upon Hot-beds.] 1704Gardiner tr. Rapin's Gardens i. 34 The arm'd Nasturcium through each teeming Bed, With Trefoil intermingling Leaves, is spread. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Sallet, The dry'd seeds of the Indian Nasturtium reduced to powder, finely bolted, and mix'd with a little leaven. 1789Barker in Phil. Trans. LXXIX. 164 The nasturtiums were not cut off till after the middle of November. 1845–50A. H. Lincoln Lect. Bot. ii. 78 The pollen of the Nasturtium. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 154 Indian Cress,..called Garden Nasturtium.
attrib.1747–96H. Glasse Cookery vi. 98 A few nasturtium flowers stuck here and there, look pretty. 1881T. Hardy Laodicean vi. iii, The same nasturtium leaves that presented their faces to the passers without.
b. Comb. with names of colours, as nasturtium-red, nasturtium-yellow. Also ellipt. as the name of a colour.
1845Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 465/1 Nasturtium.—Chrome yellow 24, flux 76. 1892Pall Mall G. 19 May 1/3 The Eton jacket..opened over a blouse of nasturtium-yellow silk. 1896Daily News 18 July 6/3 An oblong yoke of bright nasturtium-red velvet. |