Asphodel

as′fo-del, n. a kind of lily—in Greek mythology, the peculiar plant of the dead. In Greece they cover the bleakest hillsides with enduring blo om.— adj. Elysian. [Gr. as pho delos , a plant of the lily kind; cf. Homer's as pho delos leimōn , the meadow of the dead. See Daffodil .]