HyperDic: yellow_asphodel

English > 1 sense of the expression yellow asphodel:
NOUNplantyellow asphodel, king's spear, Asphodeline luteaasphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers
English > yellow asphodel: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningasphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers.
Synonymsking's spear, Asphodeline lutea
Member ofAsphodeline, genus Asphodelinegenus of rhizomatous perennial or biennial herbs with numerous sometimes fragrant flowers in long cylindrical racemes
BroaderasphodelAny of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera ... / genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers
Catalanasphodeline lutea

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