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white asphodel (Asphodelus albus)

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From Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos). Doublet of daffodil.

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asphodel (usually uncountable, plural asphodels)

  1. Any of the flowering plants of the family Asphodelaceae, especially Asphodelus ramosus and Asphodelus albus; the flower of these plants.
    • 1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77:
      Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses, juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel [translating asphodèles].
  2. (Greek mythology) The flower said to carpet Hades, and a favorite food of the dead.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. [], London: [] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker []; [a]nd by Robert Boulter []; [a]nd Matthias Walker, [], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [], London: Basil Montagu Pickering [], 1873, →OCLC:
      Her hand he seis'd, and to a shadie bank,
      Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
      He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch,
      Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel,
      And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.

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