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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
asphodel
 
SYLLABICATION:as·pho·del
PRONUNCIATION:  sf-dl
NOUN:1a. Any of several chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus in the lily family, having linear leaves and elongate clusters of white, pink, or yellow flowers. b. Any of several other plants, such as the bog asphodel. 2. In Greek poetry and mythology, the flowers of Hades and the dead, sacred to Persephone. 3. In early English and French poetry, the daffodil.
ETYMOLOGY:Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos.
 
 
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