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asp / asp/ • n. (also asp viper) a small southern European viper (Vipera aspis) with an upturned snout. ∎ another term for Egyptian cobra.

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asp Popular name for two species of viper, the asp viper of s Europe (Vipera aspis), and the Egyptian asp, a horned, side-winding viper of n Africa (Cerastes cerastes). Both are weakly venomous and eat small animals. Family: Viperidae.

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ASP • abbr. application service provider, a company providing Internet access to software applications that would otherwise have to be installed on individual computers.

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asp1 tree of the poplar family. OE. æspe = OHG. aspa (G. espe is from the adj. espen) :- Gmc. *aspōn. Rel. Russ. osína, OPruss. abse, Lith. ēpuše. Superseded by ASPEN.

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ASP Commerce accepté sous protêt (French: accepted under protest)
• US Air Force aerospace plane
• African Special Project (of the IUCN)
• (Tanzania) Afro-Shirazi Party
• American selling price
• (æsp) (USA) Anglo-Saxon Protestant
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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asp another name for the Egyptian cobra; it is particularly associated with Cleopatra, who is said to have committed suicide by allowing herself to be bitten by an asp, and has become a type of venomous poison.

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asp2 small viper of N. Africa. XVI. — OF. aspe or its source L. aspis — Gr. aspis, aspid-. The L. form was formerly (XIV) current in Eng., as well as aspic (XVI) — F.; also †aspide — OF.

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asp (Vipera aspis) See VIPERIDAE.

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Asp (or asp) Biochem. aspartic acid