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Definition of Edible asparagus

1. Noun. Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Edible Asparagus

Literary usage of Edible asparagus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"The edible asparagus is the young, fresh, undeveloped shoots taken at an early period of growth. They are highly valued when stewed or-for use as a salad. ..."

2. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"No doubt certain advantages belong to each method of culture; the experimentalist should try all. The Argenteuil growers produce edible Asparagus nearly all ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1867)
"... the breadfruit and the nutritious cow-tree of South America with the poisonous Upas ; the edible asparagus and onion with the purgative aloes and the ..."

4. Insects Injurious to Vegetables by Frank Hurlbut Chittenden (1907)
"The chief source of damage from this species is from the work of the hibernated beetles in early spring on young and edible asparagus shoots. ..."

5. How to Make a Vegetable Garden: A Practical and Suggestive Manual for the by Edith Loring Fullerton (1905)
"The first produces large, white stalks, the last smaller, green stalks. We prefer the Palmetto, for there is in it more truly edible asparagus, and less of ..."

6. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"The family is easily recognized by the narrow leaves, which fall off as soon as they begin to fade, and by the scarlet berries. Our edible Asparagus is a ..."

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