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sparrowgrass
[ spar-oh-gras, -grahs ]
sparrowgrass
/ 藞蝉辫忙谤蓹蕣藢伞谤蓱藧蝉 /
noun
- a dialect or popular name for asparagus
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sparrowgrass1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of sparrowgrass1
Example Sentences
I reached for the goblet and trailed my balloon sleeves through the sparrowgrass sauce.
鈥淚t is my fault,鈥 Father said, cutting into a sparrowgrass spear.
A serving maid whisked away my uneaten sparrowgrass and replaced it with scallops and tomato aspic.
On Father鈥檚 plate and mine was sparrowgrass covered with a tarragon-mustard sauce.
We see him discovering samphire, the salty sea-asparagus, or 鈥渟parrowgrass,鈥 of Norfolk mud flats鈥攁 contradictory plant dependent on sweeping tides, which gathers silt and sand in its stems and creates dry land on which it cannot grow.
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