asp
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Etymology [edit]
From Latin aspis, aspidis, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς
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Noun [edit]
asp (plural asps)
- (archaic) A water snake.
- A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
- The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje)
- A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
- An aspen tree.
- 1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy (page 233)
- Having decimated groves of cedar, quaking asps, weeping willows, poplars, and fruit trees on the last day of January, Alva C. Griest of the Seventy-second Indiana believed he "was doing wrong all the time we were at it."
- 1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy (page 233)
Translations [edit]
Naja haje
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Noun [edit]
asp c
- Aspen; a type of Populus tree. (Populus tremula)
- A type of fish. (Aspius aspius)
- An African snake. (Vipera Aspis)