ASPARAGUS
- A tall plant of the lily family with fine feathery foliage, cultivated for its edible shoots
- The tender young shoots of this plant, eaten as a vegetable and considered a delicacy
- the tender young shoots of a Eurasian plant eaten as a vegetable [n ASPARAGUSES]
- any plant of the Asparagus genus, one species having young shoots eaten as a delicacy [n -ES]