Crossword clues for asphodel
asphodel
- "That greeny flower" in a William Carlos Williams poem
- Any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers
- Liliaceous plant
- Daffodil
- Gloomy flower? Hoped lass not wholly distressed
- Plant of lily family
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Asphodel \As"pho*del\, n. [L. asphodelus, Gr. ?. See Daffodil.] (Bot.) A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.
Note: The name is also popularly given to species of other
genera. The asphodel of the early English and French
poets was the daffodil. The asphodel of the Greek poets
is supposed to be the Narcissus poeticus.
--Dr.
Prior.
Pansies, and violets, and asphodel.
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Latin asphodelus, from Greek asphodelos "asphodel, king's spear, plant of the lily kind," which is of unknown origin (see daffodil). It was the peculiar plant of the dead; and in Greek mythology and English poetic use it overspreads the Elysian meadows.To embathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. [Milton, "Comus," 1634]
Wiktionary
n. 1 Flowering plants of the ''(taxlink Asphodelaceae family noshow=1)'' family, especially (taxlink Asphodelus ramosus species noshow=1) and (taxlink Asphodelus albus species noshow=1); the flowers of these plants. 2 (context Greek mythology English) The flower said to carpet Hades, and a favorite food of the dead.
WordNet
n. any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers
Wikipedia
Asphodel can refer to:
Plants:
- The genus Asphodelus
- Members of the several botanical genera, especially:
- Asphodelus albus
- Asphodelus ramosus
- Asphodeline lutea, the yellow asphodel
- Narthecium ossifragum, the bog asphodel (Western Europe)
- Narthecium americanum, the bog asphodel (USA)
Other:
- Asphodel Records, AKA Asphodel Ltd., San Francisco based record label
- Asphodel Meadows, a section of the Underworld in Ancient Greek mythology
- Asphodel-Norwood, Ontario, a Canadian municipality which includes the former Asphodel Township
Usage examples of "asphodel".
Haye makes so little stay at Asphodel at this time -- you will not see anything of him, nor of his place.
She stole to the graveyard to pray her silent prayers over her weaving: aster, asphodel, rosemary, and rue, each bound into a chaplet tied with three strands of her silvery hair.
The mage had as much as said the amulet, the asphodel, and the raw snail were not enough by themselves to ward him fully.
His rite accomplished, the traveler receives the reward of his liberation: the little stone, dry and smooth as an asphodel, that he picks up on the cliff.
It all looked good, including Walt, who might have posed for a statue of a Greek athlete, with asphodel or some other appropriate flower around his feet.
Each swan extended her neck, then plunged it delicately beneath a garland to emerge crowned with asphodels and aster, rosemary and rue .
He rested not only on grass, but oh lilies, the very asphodels of Hades such as Achilles had strode upon.
Drew him from this trap of Lethe and the asphodels that looked so much like his lost home back into consciousness.
Then they are plateaus covered with asphodels, peopled with bare little cottages among the flowers.
Therefore to you henceforth belong These Southern asphodels of song, Less MY creations than your own, What praise they win are yours alone.
Here Flora had surely played a trick to plant golden genista against the intense sapphire blue of a Capri sea, and she must have emptied her apron all at once to have spangled the rough grass with cistus, anemone, and starry asphodel.
Lamps that were milky opals self-effulgent filled all the chamber with a soft radiance, in which the bas-reliefs of the high dado, delicately carved, portraying those immortal blooms of amaranth and nepenthe and moly and Elysian asphodel, were seen in all their delicate beauty, and the fair painted pictures of the Lord of Krothering and his lady sister, and of Lord Juss above the great open fireplace with Goldry and Spitfire on his left and right.
VII Now the meadows with crocus besprent, And the asphodel woodsides she left, And the lake-slopes, the ravishing scent Of narcissus, dark-sweet, for the cleft That tutors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine.
Its popular names, Daffodowndilly, Daffodily, and Affodily, bear reference to the Asphodel, with which blossom of the ancient Greeks this is identical.
Where in a lawn of flowering asphodel Amid a wood of pines and cedars blended, There yawned an inextinguishable well Of crimson fire--full even to the brim, And overflowing all the margin trim.