FALSE ASPHODEL

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Meaning:

A plant of the genus Tofieldia having linear chiefly basal leaves and small spicate flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("false 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 "false asphodel"):

Scotch asphodel; Tofieldia pusilla (false asphodel having spikes of white flowers; of mountainous regions of Europe)

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

genus Tofieldia; Tofieldia (genus of perennial herbs of cool temperate regions; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)

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