亚洲网紅露点

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sparrowgrass

[ spar-oh-gras, -grahs ]

noun

Informal.


sparrowgrass

/ 藞蝉辫忙谤蓹蕣藢伞谤蓱藧蝉 /

noun

  1. a dialect or popular name for asparagus
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of sparrowgrass1

First recorded in 1650鈥60; by folk etymology
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of sparrowgrass1

C17: variant of asparagus , associated by folk etymology with sparrow and grass
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I reached for the goblet and trailed my balloon sleeves through the sparrowgrass sauce.

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鈥淚t is my fault,鈥 Father said, cutting into a sparrowgrass spear.

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A serving maid whisked away my uneaten sparrowgrass and replaced it with scallops and tomato aspic.

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On Father鈥檚 plate and mine was sparrowgrass covered with a tarragon-mustard sauce.

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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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