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asps

asps is the plural of asp.

Meaning of asp

Noun

asp (plural asps)

  1. (archaic) A water snake.
  2. A venomous viper native to southwestern Europe (Vipera aspis).
    Synonyms:
    asp viper, European asp, aspis viper
  3. The Egyptian cobra (Naja haje).
  4. (figuratively) An evil person; a snake.
    • 'Two thousand years ago did thou and I and that Egyptian asp rest therein, but since then have I not set foot here, nor any man, and perchance it has fallen,' and, followed by the rest of us, she passed up a vast flight of broken and ruined steps into the outer court, and looked round into the...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
  5. A type of European fish (Aspius aspius).
  6. (Southern US) The caterpillar of various types of flannel moths which induce an intense pain when their hair is touched.

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Proper noun capitalized: ASPS

ASPS

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
    • Tastes continue to change, too. And while the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the entire industry, with ASPS reporting a 15% drop in cosmetic procedures carried out in the US in 2020 compared to the previous year, some procedures suffered far larger falls – the number of breast augmentations was...2021 May 30, Oscar Holland, “From ancient Egypt to Beverly Hills: A brief history of plastic surgery”, in CNN, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2023
    • Aware that WPATH suppressed systematic reviews of evidence while developing its latest “standards of care,” ASPS says that it “is reviewing and prioritizing several initiatives that best support evidence-based gender surgical care to provide guidance to plastic surgeons.”2024 December 8, Leor Sapir, “A Consensus No Longer”, in City Journal, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2025

Noun capitalized: ASPs

ASPs

  1. (plural) plural of ASP

Phrases with asps

Questions about asps

What is asps the plural of?
Asps is the plural of asp.
What part of speech is asps?
Asps can be a proper noun or a noun.

Words near asps in the dictionary

  1. aspro
  2. aspron
  3. asprons
  4. aspros
  5. asprout
  6. asps
  7. Aspull
  8. aspulvinone
  9. aspulvinones
  10. aspy
  11. aspyridone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: asps (page history and authors); ASPS (page history and authors); ASPs (page history and authors); asp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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