Asphodel Definition

ăsfə-dĕl
noun
Any of several chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus, having linear leaves and elongate clusters of white, pink, or yellow flowers.
American Heritage
Any of a genus (Asphodeline) of plants of the lily family, having fleshy roots, narrow leaves, and white or yellow, lilylike flowers; esp. the classic flower of death (A. lutea)
Webster's New World
Any of several other plants, such as the bog asphodel.
American Heritage
Any of a similar genus (Asphodelus) of plants of the lily family, having leafless flower stems.
Webster's New World
In Greek poetry and mythology, the flowers of Hades and the dead, sacred to Persephone.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Asphodel

Noun

Singular:
asphodel
Plural:
asphodels

Origin of Asphodel

  • Latin asphodelus from Greek asphodelos

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphodelos).

    From Wiktionary

Asphodel Sentence Examples

  • The plants generally have a rhizome bearing radical leaves, as in asphodel, rarely a stem with a tuft of leaves as in Aloe, very rarely a tuber (Eriospermum) or bulb (Bowiea).

  • As a chthonian divinity she is accompanied by a snake; the myrtle, asphodel and narcissus (which Persephone was gathering when carried off by Hades) also are sacred to her.

  • Asphodelus (asphodel) is a Mediterranean genus; Simethis, a slender herb with grassy radical leaves, is a native of west and southern Europe extending into south Ireland.

  • In Greek legend the asphodel is the most famous of the plants connected with the dead and the underworld.

  • The asphodel was also supposed to be a remedy for poisonous snake-bites and a specific against sorcery; it was fatal to mice, but preserved pigs from disease.

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LELDEL

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