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asphodel
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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as·pho·del
/ ˈasfəˌdel/
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n.
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a Eurasian plant (genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline) of the lily family, typically having long slender leaves and flowers borne on a spike. See also bog asphodel.
2. poetic/lit.
an immortal flower said to grow in the Elysian fields.
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Asphodel.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...in the Beinecke Library is H.D.'s Asphodel, a roman a clef drafted in 1921-22...autobiographical episodes; the material in Asphodel overlaps with the "War I" material...and the birth of her daughter Perdita, Asphodel chronicles the shifting triangles of...
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Asphodel to become exclusive golf community
Magazine article from: The Greater Baton Rouge Business Report; 1/7/1997; ; 611 words
; ...golf course development slated for the Asphodel Plantation in Jackson. The developer...300 acres of land for the development. Asphodel Plantation, which sits on 150 acres...community that would be about a mile from Asphodel Club. Leone said that the Felicianas...
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Giant Asphodel.(Brief Article)(Poem)(Illustration)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 10/1/2004; 429 words
; GIANT ASPHODEL for William Carlos Williams I wonder which parts of me that I do not know will die with...ego which is blocking the view my mind strains to see. My yard certainly has the biggest asphodel in the whole of the street.
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Asphodels
Magazine article from: Poetry; 10/1/1998; ; 273 words
; ...disappeared, and now, on top of it all, it's beginning to snow. The entire city is out of shoelaces. The machine-gun fire in the financial district has died down. But there are still a few asphodels left, in the fridge, just in case.
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Asphodels.(poem)
Magazine article from: Poetry; 10/1/1998; ; 440 words
; ...entire city is out of shoelaces. The machine-gun fire in the financial district has died down. But there are still a few asphodels left, in the fridge, just in case. HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER was born in Kaufbeuren in 1929, and lives in Munich. At the...
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Asphodel.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 12/22/2000; ; 569 words
; ...has become wildflower--pipewort, she thinks, or carrion wort, depending--false Solomon's seal, nodding mandarin, asphodel. A ziggurat of marzipan, perhaps, she asks, producing a delicate smoked salmon, lifting a gold-plated butterfish to...
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Antimatter Vs. Antimatter (Asphodel)
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 10/22/2003; ; 353 words
; ANTIMATTER Antimatter Vs. Antimatter (Asphodel) The Antimatter that New Age metal goths don't know is a Bay Area visual artist who sculpts metal-machine-muzak Dada-scapes...
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Iannis Xenakis: Persepolis + Remixes; Asphodel CD
Newspaper article from: The Independent Weekly; 10/16/2002; ; 536 words
; Greek composer Iannis Xenakis had a very colorful background before devoting himself to music, and his works are filled with the same drama and often agonized emotions that ruled his life. He fought the Nazis with the Greek resistance (which left him blind in one eye), collaborated as an architect
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Dear glutinous false asphodel.(Poem)
Magazine article from: Chicago Review; 12/22/2004; ; 479 words
; Do you mind if I call you that? It's a pretty flower after all--a simple, erect, sticky perennial. I would solicit some blossom for you, and perhaps, spurred by such insult of commerce finally gain a letter from you whom I counted as friend. To stand on the shore and watch the great lake rise and
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Rob Swift THE ABLIST; Asphodel Ltd.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/22/1999; ; 351 words
; Known more for his agile fingers that can scratch vinyl recordings to produce incredible sounds, Rob (Swift) Aguilar has shown on this album that there is much more to the man. A creative spirit, his sounds are crisp, harkening back to old-school days when DJs and MCs were equal partners. On
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asphodel
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
asphodel , name for plants of several...lily family). The true asphodels belong to two small and...narcissus. The false asphodel is Tofieldia, represented...is also called mountain asphodel. Asphodels are classified in the...
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daffodil
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
daffodil †asphodel; plant of the genus Narcissus . XIV. Alt. (with unexpl. d- ) of † affodil (XV–XVII) — med L. affodillus , prob. a book-perversion of * asfodillus , var. of L. asphodilus , -elus ASPHODEL .
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lily
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Africa that climb by means of tendrillike leaf tips. Many common wildflowers also belong to the lily family, e.g., the asphodel , brodiea , camass , Canada mayflower (see mayflower ), dogtooth violet , greenbrier (see smilax ), lily of the valley...
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Robert Ranke Graves
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Goddess (1947), Greek Myths (2 vol., 1955), and Hebrew Myths (1963). Other works of criticism include The Common Asphodel (1949), Poetic Craft and Principle (1967), On Poetry: Collected Talks and Essays (1969), and translations of The...
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Hades
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus—assigned to each soul its appropriate abode. The virtuous and the heroic were rewarded in the Elysian fields ; wrongdoers were sent to Tartarus ; and most wandered as dull shadows among fields of asphodel.
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