Crossword-Solution: NASTURTIUM
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| Nasturtium | n. | A genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste. |
| Nasturtium | n. | Any plant of the genus Tropaeolum, geraniaceous herbs, having mostly climbing stems, peltate leaves, and spurred flowers, and including the common Indian cress (Tropaeolum majus), the canary-bird flower (T. peregrinum), and about thirty more species, all natives of South America. The whole plant has a warm pungent flavor, and the fleshy fruits are used as a substitute for capers, while the leaves and flowers are sometimes used in salads. |
We have 15 clues for the answer “NASTURTIUM”
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| Bright-colored spurred flower. | 1 answer |
| FLOWER meaning victory in battle | 1 answer |
| Mean-spirited bloomer? | 1 answer |
| Spurred flower. | 1 answer |
| a genus of cruciferous plants, having white or yellowish flowers, including several species of cress | 1 answer |
| tropaeolum | 1 answer |
| Popular flower | 3 answers |
| Orange flower | 4 answers |
| trumpet-flowered plant | 5 answers |
| Summer flower | 6 answers |
| Bright flower | 6 answers |
| Ornamental flower | 11 answers |
| cruciferous plant | 22 answers |
| ANNUAL plant | 53 answers |
| Climbing Plant | 64 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with NASTURTIUM (5)
The little dressmaker bought an envelope of nasturtium seeds at the florist's, and returned to her tiny room in the flat.
Nan was able to secure four or five yellow ones in the flower garden near the porch, and Flossie got two of the small brown variety in the nasturtium bed.
Again he congratulated the nasturtium on its two bright children; but he thought of the gardens wherein they might have bloomed and the remembrance of that spacious, sunny freedom saddened him.
They bring from home the staple of their meal, dry bread with nasturtium for a relish, and to slake their thirst they bring a drinking-cup, to dip in the running stream.
And if one should ask how they can enjoy the meal with nasturtium for their only condiment and water for their only drink, let him bethink himself how sweet barley bread and wheaten can taste to the hungry man and water to the thirsty.
Quotes with NASTURTIUM (1)
Business was doing well, because all the locals knew that dishes made from the flowers that grew around the apple tree in the Waverley garden could affect the eater in curious ways. The biscuits with lilac jelly, the lavender tea cookies, and the tea cakes made with nasturtium mayonnaise the Ladies Aid ordered for their meetings once a month gave them the ability to keep secrets. The fried dandelion buds over marigold-petal rice, stuffed pumpkin blossoms, and rose-hip soup en…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–2002).