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So named according to Pliny from its pungency. (Narium tormento)
nasus, = the nose; the nose as a seat of quick smell;
nares, narium, = the nostrils, the nose;
torto, tortare, = to torture, torment.
(Ox, ld)

Nasturtium officinale (La)
Bronkosslaai, Water Cress (PS)
Location: (F)

opifex, = aid-bringing, helping;
officina, opificina, = a workshop, manufactory; laboratory;
-alis, -aris, = belonging or pertaining to, resembling, provided with.
officinalis, = used in medicine. This epithet more often refers to the past than the present; it is derived from opificina shortened to officina, originally a work-shop or shop, later a monastic storeroom, then a herb-store, pharmacy or drug-shop.
(Alien)
(ld, BL)