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BOG ASPHODEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions
Classified under:
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)