Look up: asphodel

1. asphodel
   Either of two related Old World plants of the lily family. The white asphodel or king's spear (Asphodelus albus) is found in Italy and Greece, sometimes covering large areas, and providing grazing for sheep. The other asphodel is the yellow asphodel (Asphodeline lutea). (Genera Asphodelus...
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2. asphodel
   [n] - any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers
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3. Asphodel
   As'pho·del noun [ Latin asphodelus , Greek .... See Daffodil .] (Botany) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus . The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of...
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4. asphodel
   <botany> A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers. ... The name is also popularly given to species of other genera. The asphodel of the early English and French poets wa...
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5. asphodel
   noun any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers
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6. Asphodel
   • (n.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.
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7. asphodel
   any of several flowering plants belonging to the lily family (Liliaceae). It is a variously applied and thus much-misunderstood common name. The ...
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8. asphodel
   asphodel (ăs'fudel") , name for plants of several genera of the family Lilaceae (lily family). The true asphodels belong to two small and very similar genera (Asphodelus and Asphodeline) of the Mediterranean region and India. The showy flower spike of the former is usually white; of th...
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9. Asphodel
   Asphodel (Asphodelus) is a genus of plants of the order Liliaceae, consisting of perennials, with fasciculated fleshy roots, flowers arranged in racemes, six stamens inserted at the base of the perianth, a sessile almost spherical ovary with two cells, each containing two ovules; fruit a capsule wit...
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