AS`PHODEL

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. . 1907.

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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

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