Definition of Genus Nasturtium

1. Noun. Aquatic herbs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Nasturtium

genus Mytilus
genus Myxine
genus Myxinikela
genus Myxocephalus
genus Nabalus
genus Naemorhedus
genus Nageia
genus Naias
genus Naja
genus Najas
genus Nanomia
genus Napaea
genus Narcissus
genus Narthecium
genus Nasalis
genus Nasturtium (current term)
genus Nasua
genus Natrix
genus Nauclea
genus Naucrates
genus Nautilus
genus Necturus
genus Negaprion
genus Nelumbo
genus Nemophila
genus Neoceratodus
genus Neofiber
genus Neohygrophorus
genus Neolentinus
genus Neomys

Literary usage of Genus Nasturtium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1921)
"Two genera divide the honors as regards the designation of the true cresses. One is the genus Nasturtium which in recent years has been occasionally known ..."

2. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The genus nasturtium (Lat. name tortas, a tortured nose, some of the plants being exceedingly pungent) includes among other plants the well known water ..."

3. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"De Candolle thinks this may belong to his genus Nasturtium; while Torrey and Gray place it, with a mark oi doubt, ..."

4. Popular Garden Flowers: Anemones, Asters, Begonias ... [et Al.] by Walter Page Wright (1911)
"There actually is a genus Nasturtium, so that the case presents a parallel to Geranium and Pelargonium, the Zonal Pelargonium being almost always called ..."

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