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ASPHODEL
Definition of ASPHODEL
noun
Any of the flowering plants of the family Asphodelaceae, especially Asphodelus ramosus and Asphodelus albus; the flower of these plants.
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Other senses
ASPHODEL carries 4 further meanings.
noun
Any of several chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus, having linear leaves and elongate clusters of white, pink, or yellow flowers.
noun
Any of several other plants, such as the bog asphodel.
noun
In Greek poetry and mythology, the flowers of Hades and the dead, sacred to Persephone.
noun
In early English and French poetry, the daffodil.
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin asphodelus, from Ancient Greek ἀσφόδελος (asphódelos). Doublet of daffodil.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- Latin
- English
2 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,501)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
ASPHODEL in a sentence
“Two green hairstreak butterflies, gracefully viridescent, dance past on a soft wind that sifts through reeds, sets waving the tall golden flower stems of bog asphodel, and silky white plumes of cottongrass that has colonised the old peat-diggings.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ASPHODEL in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 51 boards so far. 74 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 155, 22 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 43, 2 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ASPHODEL starts with A and ends with L. Sorted, its letters read ADEHLOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ASPHOD
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found ASPHODEL?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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