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US
/əˈspɛɹəɡəs/
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[ UK /ɐspˈæɹəɡəs/ ]
[ UK /ɐspˈæɹəɡəs/ ]
NOUN
- plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
- edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
How To Use asparagus In A Sentence
- Combine the corn with steamed green vegetables like asparagus and offer baked potatoes to ensure the children don't go hungry.
- I tried both the delicate, unsalty gravadlax and a tartare served with the roe and a very lemony asparagus salad.
- According to him, ‘In Europe the farmers throw dirt around the asparagus in order to blanch it.’
- Add the asparagus and mint about 5 min before the rice is ready. Times, Sunday Times
- Heat the olive oil over a medium heat in a heavy pan big enough to hold all the asparagus in one layer. Times, Sunday Times
- They lived for some days on the excellent flesh of the maskalonge, on clams from the beach -- enormous clams of delicious flavor -- on a new fruit with a pinkish meat, which grew abundantly in the thickets and somewhat resembled breadfruit; on wild asparagus-sprouts, and on the few squirrels that Stern was able to "pot" with his revolver from the shelter of the leafy little camping-place they had arranged near the river. Darkness and Dawn
- According to the National Cancer Institute, asparagus is the food highest in glutathione, an important anticarcinogen. Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
- Trim the asparagus and snap in half. Times, Sunday Times
- The Frenchie is a Bloody with a Dijon bite balanced with a blue cheese-stuffed olive plus pickled asparagus, a pickle, lemon and lime. JSOnline.com
- I invested in some pre-cooked, but fresh, foods like grilled wild Alaskan salmon, spring veggie cous cous, grilled asparagus, a whole roasted chicken (for us and Phoebe -- she's got to eat healthy too!) that came with a free side of cole slaw (yes from Whole Foods). Laura Klein: Hitting The Road? How To Eat Healthy