asparagus officinales

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

   Synonymsasparagusedible asparagus

   Broaderherb

   Part ofgenus Asparagus

   Partsasparagus

Questions about asparagus officinales

What does asparagus officinales mean?

asparagus officinales means "plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable".

What is another word for asparagus officinales?

Close synonyms include asparagus, edible asparagus. 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 officinales a common word?

asparagus officinales is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.