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ASPHODEL
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I. (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
Classified under:
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)
