noun

• 1A Eurasian plant of the lily family, typically having long slender leaves and flowers borne on a spike.

  Genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline, family Liliaceae. See also
  bog asphodel

  ‘The sweet herbal aroma of bog myrtle drifts from the shallow mires that harbour a tangle of willows and silver-barked birch or are spattered yellow with asphodels.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The plant, known as turkeybeard, or mountain asphodel, is a rare species of lily.’
  • ‘Hopping across fallen blocks of masonry, dancing over the asphodels, offering piggy-back rides was one way of selling ancient history to two young girls.’
  • ‘A large, yellow-flowered bladderwort sends stems several inches above the surface of the water, and the yellow asphodel is spectacular in late June and early July.’
  • ‘Among them are turkey beard, golden-crest, and yellow asphodel.’
• 2 literary An immortal flower said to grow in the Elysian fields.