nasturtium

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復數(shù):?nasturtiums;

nasturtium 旱金蓮

來自拉丁語nasturtium,來自nas-,鼻子，-turt,轉，扭曲，詞源同turn,torque.因這種植物的刺鼻氣味而得名。

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.

1. The little dressmaker bought an envelope of nasturtium seeds at the florists.: 那個個子矮小的女裁縫在花鋪里買了一包金蓮花種子.