It can refer to various plants such as lepidium didymum or bonito tropaeolum majus also known as nasturtium. The mastuerzo to dry is the nasturtium officinale, or agron, the watercress that was in spring by my land a salad very consumed. Mastuerzo derives from nasturtium, from nasus, nose and tortus , crooked : crooked nose by the gesture that used to be made when capturing the pungent flavor. It also came to mean afterwards foolish person, clumsy, cretin, stupid, lack of intelligence, imbecile. This is what a well-known radio commentator calls the Bourbon King Ferdinand VII, perhaps the most detestable and detested of all and that there are enough to choose from.
