- Edible young spears - Green stem vegetable - It provides tips for vegetarians - Succulent shoots of a plant of the lily family - A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural
order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender
branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus
is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The
Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens. - The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which
form a valuable and well-known article of food.
- Breed - Create new plants to hold up a gap in the fence - To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or
successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to
propagate a breed of horses or sheep; to propagate a species of fruit
tree. - To cause to spread to extend; to impel or continue
forward in space; as, to propagate sound or light. - To spread from person to person; to extend the
knowledge of; to originate and spread; to carry from place to place; to
disseminate; as, to propagate a story or report; to propagate the
Christian religion. - To multiply; to increase. - To generate; to produce.
- Jab - Nudge - Prod - Prod with the finger or a sharp object - Push rudely - A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P.
decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget,
pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and
purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are
sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said
to be used in Europe to color wine. - A bag; a sack; a pocket.