Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extensive genus of Cape plants, of the natural order Iridaceæ, type of the tribe Ixieæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable for the brilliancy of its flowers.
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- noun Any of the
genus Ixia ofcormous plants native toSouth Africa .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae
Etymologies
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Examples
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From tufted masses of sword-like leaves shoot up the tall spires of the _yucca_, heavy with pendent flowers, of pallid hue, like the moon, and from the grass gleams the blue eye of the starry _ixia_.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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She went to the chimney-piece, and employed herself in making a delicate piece of ixia get a better view of itself in the looking-glass.
Abbeychurch Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Many persons fancy that the Cape bulbs require to be taken up every year, but this is altogether a mistake: all the kinds of gladiolus, ixia, tritonia, and other similar plants, will live in the open ground, and flower well, if suffered to grow in masses, which would be killed by a single English winter if planted separately.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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For easy, reliable and colorful, it's hard to go wrong with sparaxis (harlequin flower) and ixia (corn lily).
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter Erle Nickel 2011
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