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nasturtia

nasturtia is the plural of nasturtium.

Meaning of nasturtium

Noun

nasturtium (plural nasturtiums or nasturtia)

  1. 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!1915, Robert W. Chambers, “Un Peu d'Amour”, in Police!!!
  2. A plant in this genus, garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus).
  3. Any of the plants in the genus Nasturtium that includes watercress.

Forms of nasturtia

alternative formnasturtiums

Questions about nasturtia

What is nasturtia the plural of?
Nasturtia is the plural of nasturtium.

Words near nasturtia in the dictionary

  1. nastriform
  2. Nastronaut
  3. Nastronauts
  4. nastrophite
  5. Nasts
  6. nasturtia
  7. nasturtian
  8. nasturtians
  9. nasturtion
  10. nasturtions
  11. nasturtium

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