MEANING
A perennial flowering plant with narrow leaves and upright clusters of pale, usually white or yellow, blossoms.
Use it for
A writer needs pale, unfamiliar flowers or a classical, funerary atmosphere.Evokes pale flowers, neglected grounds, and—when desired—the elegiac afterlife imagery of Greek poetry.
On the page
The asphodels rose in pale spikes among the stones of the abandoned garden.
Word forms
- Base
- asphodel
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