KING'S SPEAR

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Meaning:

Asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers

Synonyms:

Asphodeline lutea; king's spear; yellow asphodel

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("king's spear" is a kind of...):

asphodel (any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("king's spear" is a member of...):

Asphodeline; genus Asphodeline (genus of rhizomatous perennial or biennial herbs with numerous sometimes fragrant flowers in long cylindrical racemes; Mediterranean region to Caucasus; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae)

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