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BOG ASPHODEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bog asphodel mean?
• BOG ASPHODEL (noun)
The noun BOG ASPHODEL has 1 sense:
1. either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
Familiarity information: BOG ASPHODEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("bog asphodel" is a kind of...):
liliaceous plant (plant growing from a bulb or corm or rhizome or tuber)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bog asphodel"):
European bog asphodel; Narthecium ossifragum (of western Europe: Scandinavia to northern Spain and Portugal)
American bog asphodel; Narthecium americanum (of the eastern United States: New Jersey to South Carolina)
Holonyms ("bog asphodel" is a member of...):
genus Narthecium; Narthecium (bog asphodels; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae)
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