yellow asphodel

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   asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers

   Synonymsking's spearAsphodeline lutea

   Broaderasphodel

   Part ofAsphodeline

Questions about yellow asphodel

What does yellow asphodel mean?

yellow asphodel means "asphodel with leafy stem and fragrant yellow flowers".

What is another word for yellow asphodel?

Close synonyms include king's spear, Asphodeline lutea. 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 yellow asphodel a common word?

yellow asphodel 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.