asphodel : Idioms & Phrases

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american bog asphodel

  • noun of the eastern United States: New Jersey to South Carolina
    Narthecium americanum.
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bog asphodel

  • noun either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
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european bog asphodel

  • noun of western Europe: Scandinavia to northern Spain and Portugal
    Narthecium ossifragum.
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false asphodel

  • noun a plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers
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Marsh asphodel

  • (Bot.), a plant (Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; called also bog asphodel.
Webster 1913

scotch asphodel

  • noun false asphodel having spikes of white flowers; of mountainous regions of Europe
    Tofieldia pusilla.
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yellow asphodel

  • noun asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers
    king's spear; Asphodeline lutea.
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