asphodeline

1. 1.

   genus of rhizomatous perennial or biennial herbs with numerous sometimes fragrant flowers in long cylindrical racemes; Mediterranean region to Caucasus; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae

   Synonymsgenus Asphodeline

   Broaderliliid monocot genus

   Part ofLiliaceae

Other forms of asphodeline

plural

asphodelines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asphodeline

What does asphodeline mean?

asphodeline means "genus of rhizomatous perennial or biennial herbs with numerous sometimes fragrant flowers in long cylindrical racemes; Mediterranean region to Caucasus; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae".

How many syllables are in asphodeline?

asphodeline has 4 syllables: a-spho-de-line. The stress falls on "spho".

What is another word for asphodeline?

Close synonyms include genus Asphodeline. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asphodeline a common word?

asphodeline is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.