Usually means: Perennial flower, mythologically significant, white.
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  1. asphodel: Merriam-Webster
  2. asphodel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asphodel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asphodel: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asphodel: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asphodel, asphodel: Wordnik
  7. asphodel: Wiktionary
  8. asphodel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. asphodel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. asphodel: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Asphodel, asphodel: Dictionary.com
  12. asphodel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Asphodel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Asphodel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. asphodel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. asphodel: Rhymezone
  17. Asphodel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. asphodel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Asphodel: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. asphodel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. asphodel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. asphodel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. asphodel: Merriam-Webster

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  1. asphodel: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asphodel: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Asphodel)

noun:  Any of the flowering plants of the family Asphodelaceae, especially Asphodelus ramosus and Asphodelus albus; the flower of these plants.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The flower said to carpet Hades, and a favorite food of the dead.
noun:  A former township in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada, merged into Asphodel-Norwood township in 1998.

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