Other forms: asparagi
Asparagus is long green spears eaten as a spring vegetable. A bundle of asparagus, grill the asparagus, the asparagus season.
The British season runs about eight weeks from late April, and the spears grow fast enough to be measured daily. A famous effect follows eating it, though whether you can smell it is itself inherited. A bed takes three years before it can be cut.
1nounasparagusLong green spears eaten as a spring vegetable.
“We ate grilled asparagus with butter and a poached egg.”
asparagus is a vegetable.
Greek asparagos names the plant, taken into Latin and then into English. Sparrow grass was a folk reshaping of it.
Medieval Latin
asparagus
English, today
asparagus
Borrowed from Medieval Latin asparagus. Borrowed from Medieval Latin asparagus, sparagus, from Ancient Greek ἀσπάραγος, variant of ἀσφάραγος. Displaced Old English eorþnafola. Later became an eggcorn in dialect as sparrowgrass.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA