Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - asparagus
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Asparagus
asparagus
noun (plural -gus) Etymology: New Latin, genus name, from Latin, ~ plant, from Greek asparagos; perhaps akin to Greek spargan to swell Date: 1545 any of a genus (Asparagus) of Old World perennial plants of the lily family having much-branched stems, minute scalelike leaves, and narrow usually filiform branchlets that function as leaves; especially one (A. officinalis) widely cultivated for its edible young shoots
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спаржа (Asparagus) – common asparagus – fern asparagus – sharp-leaved asparagus – smilax asparagus ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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Asparagus is a vegetable that is long and green and has small shoots at one end. It is cooked and served whole. N-UNCOUNT ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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- 13c., sparage, from M.L. sparagus, from L. asparagus, Gk. asparagos, probably from PIE base *sp(h)er(e)g- "to spring up" (though perhaps from a non-Gk. source). Respelled c.1600 to conform with Gk. Sparrowgrass is 17c. folk etymology, persisting into 19c., during which time asparagus had "an air of stiffness and pedantry." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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