Crossword clues for asparagus
asparagus
- Shoots in the garden
- Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- Plant of the lily family
- Vegetable shoots
- Vegetable served after a special introduction to Alan Sugar backfired
- Vegetable poisonous types take in a meat and tomato sauce
- Green shoots, cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- Something eaten when secretary's requited love
- Saving time, cook pasta sauce with end of sausages and vegetable
- Plant with edible shoots
- Plant speared on one's fork
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asparagus \As*par"a*gus\ ([a^]s*p[a^]r"[.a]*g[u^]s), n. [L., fr. Gr. 'aspa`ragos, 'asfa`ragos; cf. sparga^n to swell with sap or juice, and Zend [,c]paregha prong, sprout, Pers. asparag, Lith. spurgas sprout, Skr. sphurj to swell. Perh. the Greek borrowed from the Persian. Cf. Sparrowgrass.]
(Bot.) A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliace[ae], and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.
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The young and tender shoots of Asparagus officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.
Note: This word was formerly pronounced sparrowgrass; but this pronunciation is now confined exclusively to uneducated people.
Asparagus beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small beetle ( Crioceris asparagi) injurious to asparagus.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., aspergy; late Old English sparage, from Latin asparagus (in Medieval Latin often sparagus), from Greek asparagos, which is of uncertain origin; probably from PIE root *sp(h)er(e)g- "to spring up" (though perhaps not originally a Greek word).\n
\nIn Middle English, asperages sometimes was regarded as a plural, with false singular aspergy. By 16c. the word had been anglicized as far as sperach, sperage. It was respelled by c.1600 to conform with classical Latin, but in 17c. the folk-etymologized variant sparrowgrass took hold, persisting into 19c., during which time asparagus had "an air of stiffness and pedantry" [John Walker, "Critical Pronouncing Dictionary," 1791]. Known in Old English as eorðnafela.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various perennial plants of the genus ''Asparagus'' having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers. 2 The young shoots of ''Asparagus officinalis'' eaten as a vegetable. 3 A green colour, like that of an asparagus.
WordNet
n. plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable [syn: edible asparagus, Asparagus officinales]
edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
Wikipedia
Asparagus, or garden asparagus, scientific name Asparagus officinalis, is a spring vegetable, a flowering perennial plant species in the genus Asparagus.
It was once classified in the lily family, like the related Allium species, onions and garlic, but the Liliaceae have been split and the onion-like plants are now in the family Amaryllidaceae and asparagus in the Asparagaceae. Asparagus officinalis is native to most of Europe, northern Africa and western Asia, and is widely cultivated as a vegetable crop.
Asparagus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Asparagoideae. It comprises up to 300 species. Most are evergreen long-lived perennial plants growing from the understory as lianas, bushes or climbing plants. The best-known species is the edible Asparagus officinalis, commonly referred to as just asparagus. Some other members of the genus, such as Asparagus densiflorus, are grown as ornamental plants.
Asparagus is a type of vegetable.
Asparagus may also refer to:
- Asparagus (genus), the name of a genus of plants
- Asparagus (color), a brownish shade of green that resembles the plant asparagus
Usage examples of "asparagus".
Mayonnaise dressing is used for meat, fish, some varieties of fruit, as banana, apple and pineapple, and for some vegetables, as cauliflower, asparagus and tomatoes.
Have carrots cut in small cubes or straws, turnips and beet root the same, green string beans cut in small pieces, asparagus and peas, all cooked separately until tender.
When ready to serve, arrange the cups on shredded lettuce and fill with cooked asparagus tips, cold and mixed with mayonnaise or French dressing, as desired.
Set a row of sliced gherkins near the top, and fill in the space to the top with string beans or asparagus tips.
Make a sauce of the butter, flour, salt, paprica, and water in which the asparagus was cooked, or use half a cup of cream in the place of part of the asparagus liquor.
When the eggs are nicely poached, remove the eggs, with the asparagus below, on to rounds of toasted and buttered bread.
For three cups of peas make one cup of drawn-butter sauce, using as liquid the water in which the asparagus was cooked, or white stock.
Foods like asparagus, artichokes, Brussels sprouts, black-eyed peas, and sunflower seeds contain folate.
Continue broiling 4 minutes or until chicken is cooked through and asparagus is crisp-tender.
Olive oil, whole-grain pasta, and asparagus decrease the inflammatory gremlins that age your arteries.
Never mind, I had an established asparagus bed so I would be able to cut asparagus for our meals, also I could harvest early lettuce, broccoli and radishes, leeks and spring cabbages, winter cauliflower and winter spinach.
Since all but me were vegetarians I had made a dinner of cream of spinach soup with steamed turnip tops, broccoli quiche, asparagus risotto, cauliflower cheese and a mixed salad.
Fifteen pounds of cold tortellini salad, two hundred miniature asparagus tarts, three platters of herbed goat cheese, and a hundred and fifty spring rolls had no doubt been loaded back into the Right Touch Catering van.
And I dont have another menu featuring asparagus tarts scheduled for this week.
They had been in the middle of choosing between the asparagus tarts and miniature mushroom quiches.