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# asparagus

«asparagus» in Mova's school dictionary: **A vegetable with long green, white or purple stalks with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (asparagus — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A vegetable with long green, white or purple stalks with pointed tips, eaten cooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#m1)

2) The plant it grows from. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In food and science lessons about plants and healthy eating. A funny fact: asparagus can make some people's wee smell. Phrases: «asparagus spears», «a bunch of asparagus».

### examples

- We had asparagus with our dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#x1)
- Asparagus spears grow up from the soil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#x2)
- Grandad grows asparagus in his garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#x3)
- The asparagus season is in late spring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#x4)
- I tried asparagus soup at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#x5)
- Snap off the woody ends of the asparagus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/#x6)

### note

Uncountable: «some asparagus», «spears of asparagus». Said «a-SPA-ra-gus».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «asparagus» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/asparagus/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.