ASPHODEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does asphodel mean? 

• ASPHODEL (noun)
  The noun ASPHODEL has 1 sense:

1. any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers

  Familiarity information: ASPHODEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASPHODEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("asphodel" is a kind of...):

liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "asphodel"):

Jacob's rod (asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight)

Asphodeline lutea; king's spear; yellow asphodel (asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("asphodel" is a member of...):

family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)