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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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