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BOG ASPHODEL

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Either of two herbaceous rushlike bog plants having small yellow flowers and grasslike leaves; north temperate regions

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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