Asparagus

(as-para-gus.) [L.] (Bot.)Agen. of plants, 0. Liliacere, having minute, scale-like leaves, small white or greenish flowers, and berried fruit. A. officinal is is one of the few species which neither climb nor bear spines. The succulent shoots which it throws up from its underground eyes are the asparagus of the market gardeners. [s. 53]