- 1蘆筍
Asparagus is a long, thin, green vegetable with a pointed tip. The part we eat is a young shoot; cooks often call one stick a spear. It is a bit of a special dish, not an everyday vegetable like cabbage. Though actually, if you leave the plant to grow, it becomes tall and fern-like, and we do not eat that grown-up form. In some older country talk, people said sparrowgrass — it sounds like plus grass, but it is only a playful of the old Latin name. Careful English keeps asparagus. We usually treat it as a mass of spears (“some asparagus”), not “an asparagus,” unless we mean one stick.
組成From Greek asparagos, through Medieval Latin asparagus (also sparagus). It pushed out Old English eorþnafola. The dialect form sparrowgrass is an eggcorn, not a real “sparrow” word.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
asparagusnoun/əˈspæɹ.ə.ɡəs/
- 1
Any of various perennial plants of the genus Asparagus having leaflike stems, scalelike leaves, and small flowers.
- 2
The young shoots of Asparagus officinalis eaten as a vegetable.
- At the greenmarket, it’s still mostly potatoes and apples. There are no tender greens, fava beans, peas, asparagus, artichokes, sorrel, rhubarb or early strawberries. Those harbingers of the season are said to be full of chi, or qi, the Chinese word for life force. We’re craving them as we’re craving lighter, brighter-tasting meals, food that is greener and fresher.
- 3
A green colour, like that of an asparagus.
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