overspreads in English
verb
1
cover the surface of; spread over.
a broad smile overspread his face
verb
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1. Asphodel (n.) late 14c., from Latin Asphodelus, from Greek Asphodelos, also sphodelos, spodelos, "Asphodel, king's spear, plant of the lily kind," which is of unknown origin; "A substrate word, as is shown by the variants" [Beekes].Compare daffodil.It was the peculiar plant of the dead; and in Greek mythology and English poetic use it overspreads the Elysian meadows.