Definitions for asper

asper as·per

Spelling: [as-per]
IPA: /ˈæs pər/

Asper is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in asper (aeprs).

Definitions for asper

noun

  1. a former silver coin of Turkey and Egypt: later a money of account equal to 1/120 of a piaster.

adjective

  1. harsh; rough.

noun, adjective

  1. aspen.

Origin of asper

1580-90; Italian aspero Medieval Greek áspron literally, white coin, noun use of neuter of áspros white

Examples for asper

Thus the usual Telugu marriage post, but made of Streblus asper wood, is set up, and nine kinds of grain are placed near it.

Crenshaw and Hopkins showed that asper did not intergrade with ferox.

The chairs and carpets are covered, but the corners are turned up that asper may admire their beauty and texture.

Percy was plainly called a donkey, for hanging off and on with a handsome girl of such expectations as Miss asper.

Mr asper obtained leave, and asked permission to take our hero with him; to which Mr Sawbridge consented.

Bromus asper, Brachypodium sylvaticum and Lagurus also come here.

The word "asper" means either "unsavoury" or "prickly," according to the context.

Sometimes a girl is married in performance of a vow to the sahada (Streblus asper) tree.

Ride south till you get in the hills on a bee-line east of where Tucker Creek runs into the old asper.

There it lay in a bend of the asper in the low-lands, and every town where men lived was an enemy.

Word Value for asper
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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