Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Asparagus.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Asparagus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun colloq. Asparagus.

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  • noun dated, dialect, nonstandard Asparagus.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[By folk etymology from sparagus, variant of asparagus.]

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sparrow +‎ grass, a folk etymology for asparagus.

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