sparagus

English

Noun

sparagus (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of asparagus.
   • 1744, John Wilson, A synopsis of British plants, in Mr. Ray's method, with their characters, descriptions, places of growth, time of flowering, and physical virtues, page 124:

     The young shoots, commonly call'd Sparagus, are; pleasant and wholsome food, of a cleansing nature, and light digestion, provoking urine, to which they give a fætid stinking smell.