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ASPARAGUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Edible young shoots of the asparagus plant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("asparagus" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Holonyms ("asparagus" is a part of...):
asparagus; Asparagus officinales; edible asparagus (plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable
Synonyms:
asparagus; Asparagus officinales; edible asparagus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("asparagus" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Meronyms (parts of "asparagus"):
asparagus (edible young shoots of the asparagus plant)
Holonyms ("asparagus" is a member of...):
genus Asparagus (large genus of Old World perennial herbs with erect or spreading or climbing stems and small scalelike leaves and inconspicuous flowers; sometimes placed in family Asparagaceae)