Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or belonging to the iris family (Iridaceae).
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling or pertaining to plants of the genus Iris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceæ), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Of or pertaining to the
irises (of familyIridaceae )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[From New Latin Īridāceae, iris family, from Īris, Īrid-, type genus, from Latin īris, iris; see iris.]
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In contrast with this let us take the Cape of Good Hope -- the most flowery region probably that exists upon the globe, -- where the country is a complete flower-garden of heaths, pelargoniums, mesembryanthemus, exquisite iridaceous and other bulbs, and numerous flowering shrubs and trees; yet the Cape butterflies are hardly equal, either in number or variety, to those of any country in South Europe, and are utterly insignificant when compared with those of the comparatively flowerless forest-depths of the
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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