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nasturtium
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synonyms: Tropaeolum ???
tags: [Rx] [botany]
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Definition:a popular flowering garden plant native of Central and South America. Some species are edible while others have been used in herbal medicine to treat urinary tract infections and respiratory disorders.
photo: by Armon under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
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The fine old place never looked more like a delightful home than at that moment; the great white lilies were in flower, the nasturtiums, their pretty leaves all silvered with dew, were running away over the low stone wall;
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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I doled out castor oil and nasturtium syrup to countless children who had overindulged in sweeties.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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If red and yellow are heightened by light, the same does not always hold true of their compound, orange, which often seems to ignite and turns to nasturtium, to a flaming red.
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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nasturtiums of the arbour.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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