- AS`PHODEL
- a lily plant appraised by the Greeks for its almost perennial flowering, and with which they, in their imagination, covered the Elysian fields, called hence the Asphodel Meadow.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AS`PHODEL
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bog asphodel — bog′ as′phodel n. pln any grasslike plant of the genus Narthecium, of the lily family, growing in boggy places • Etymology: 1880–85 … From formal English to slang
