Asp Definition

ăsp
noun
Any of several small, poisonous snakes of Africa, Arabia, and Europe, as the horned viper, Egyptian cobra, or a European viper (Vipera aspis)
Webster's New World
An aspen.
Webster's New World
Any of several venomous snakes, especially the viper Vipera aspis of southern Europe, the cobra Naja haje of Africa and the Middle East, or the horned viper.
American Heritage Medicine

(archaic) A water snake.

Wiktionary

A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).

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abbreviation

(biochemistry) IUPAC 3-letter abbreviation of aspartic acid.

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Other Word Forms of Asp

Noun

Singular:
asp
Plural:
asps

Origin of Asp

  • From Latin aspis (“asp, viper; shield”), aspidis, from Ancient Greek ἀσπίς (aspis, “shield; Egyptian cobra Naja haje”)

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English aspis from Latin from Greek

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Shortening of aspen

    From Wiktionary

Asp Sentence Examples

  • The snake, however, to which the word "asp" has been most commonly applied is undoubtedly the haje of Egypt, the spy-slange or spitting snake of the Boers (Naja haje), one of the very poisonous Elarinae, from 3 to 4 ft.

  • I like the sound of asp because I have ASP hosting.

  • Usually this would be a server installed with Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS), although Sun has a product called Chili!Soft ASP which enables ASP to run on other non-Microsoft servers such as Apache, Red Hat, and others.

  • Founded uk car insurance brokers in health plan an implementing an asp.

  • It runs on the IIS Web server side-by-side with classic asp on Windows 2003 platforms.

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Words Starting With

AASASP

Words Ending With

PSPASP

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