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[ASPHALT.] ăs'-pho-děl ( Eng . ), as-phoď'-ěl-ŭs ( Lat .), S. [In Sw. asfodillrot ; Ger. asphodille , affodil , affodille ; Dut. affodil Ru . asfalt ; Fr. asphodèle ; Sp. affodelo ; Port. asphodelo ; Ital. asfodelo ; Lat. asphodel us ; Gr. ἀσφόδελος (as pho delos). Po ibly from à, priv., and σφάλλω (sphallo) = to balk, to foil. In this case it would mean a flower which cannot be balked or foiled when in competition with others. Now corrupted into daffodil .] A. Ord . Lang . (of the form asphodel): The English name of the plants belonging to the genus Asphodel us (q.v.). The yellow and white species were introduced into this country during the sixteenth century the former about the year 1596, and the latter in 1551. Im IMG:content-0810.png:[blocks in formation] dows adorned with these beautiful flowers. "Resting weary limbs at last on beds of of asphodel ." Tennyson: The Lotus-eaters; Choric Song , 8. flowers were the couch, Pansies and violets, and asphodel, And hyacinths." Milton: Paradise Lost, bk. ix. B. Bot. ( of the form Asphodel us): A genus of plants belonging to the order Liliaceæ and the section An the riceæ. About eight species are familiar, and are cultivated in English gardens, the best known being A. lute us , the Yellow; A. alb us , the White; and A. ramosus , the Branched Lily or Asphodel, called also King's Rod. ăs-pho-děl-e-se, s. pl. [ASPHODEL US.] Bot. An old order of plants, separated by Robert Brown from the Liliaceæ on account of their po e ing a black, crustaceous, brittle seed-coat; but this character has been since deemed unimportant, and the Asphodeleæ are now ranked as a section of the order Liliaceæ, or are suppre ed even as a section. ǎs-phod-ěl-ŭs, s. The Latin form of the English word ASPHODEL (q.v.).