Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or exhibiting colors like those of the rainbow.
- Having an iris: used in composition: as, large-irised eyes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent.
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Examples
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When the azure blossom of the day dies in irised splendors, rosy clouds float up over the horizon's edge like wandering fairy islands drifting at will in a golden world – vanishing when the moon appears.
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Alizome did not see any communications hardware, but a moment later, the door irised open.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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From the OED:
(a.) Having the colours of the rainbow; coloured by a rainbow.
1880 Scribner's Mag. July 347
Bathing from time to time in waftings of irised spray.
June 28, 2007