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asphodel

1

A 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

2

literary

An everlasting flower said to grow in the Elysian fields.

They went past the streams of Ocean, past Leucas,
past the gates of the Sun and the land of Dreams,
and very soon came to the field of asphodel,
where spirits live, the shades of those whose work is done.

The Odyssey, Book XXIV

(Flower pictures from a Crete tourism site

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