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/nasˈtɜːʃəm/ · noun
The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America..
To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!
Drenched were the cold fuchsias, round pearls of dew lay on the flat nasturtium leaves.
Use nasturtium when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nasturtium means The popular name of any of the plants in the Tropaeolum genus of flowering plants native to south and central America..
Common synonyms include monks cress, Indian cress, genus nasturtium.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
To me a nasturtium by the river brink is more than a simple flower. It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol. It may mean anything, everything—such as sunsets and conflagrations and Götterdämmerungs!
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