asphodel

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

Learned borrowing from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos). Doublet of daffodil.

(See 1915 and 1916.) Asphodel. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. — The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Gathered from many wanderings, Gethsemane can tell Through what transporting anguish She reached the asphodel! — Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete, Emily Dickinson

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