jacob's rod

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   asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight

   Broaderasphodel

   Part ofAsphodeline

Questions about jacob's rod

What does jacob's rod mean?

jacob's rod means "asphodel having erect smooth unbranched stem either flexuous or straight".

Is jacob's rod a common word?

jacob's rod 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.