Asparagus
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Asparagus or garden asparagus is a perennial flowering plant species in the genus Asparagus native to Eurasia. Widely cultivated as a vegetable crop, its young shoots are used as a spring vegetable. I
Asparagus Bundle
Adult plant with fruits
Asparagus shoot before becoming woody
German botanical illustration of asparagus
Folk etymology
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Folk etymology is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage. The form or the meaning of an archaic, foreign, or oth
Asparagus
…descendant meaning "twig, branch"; but the Ancient Greek word itself, meaning "gully, chasm", seems to be of Pre-Greek origin instead. Asparagus was corrupted by folk etymology in some places to "sparrow grass"; indeed, John Walker wrote in 1791 that "Sparrowgrass is so general that asparagus has an air of…
An example of folk etymology is the dialectal English word sparrowgrass for asparagus.