asparagus

1. 1.

   plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable

   Synonymsedible asparagusAsparagus officinales

   Broaderherb

   Part ofgenus Asparagus
2. 2.

   edible young shoots of the asparagus plant

   Broadervegetable

Other forms of asparagus

plural

asparaguses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asparagus

What does asparagus mean?

asparagus means "plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in asparagus?

asparagus has 4 syllables: a-spar-a-gus. The stress falls on "spar". In IPA it is /əˈspɛɹəɡəs/.

What is another word for asparagus?

Close synonyms include edible asparagus, Asparagus officinales. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asparagus a common word?

asparagus is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.