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BEARDED IRIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bearded iris" is a kind of...):
flag; fleur-de-lis; iris; sword lily (plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bearded iris"):
Florentine iris; Iris florentina; Iris germanica florentina; orris (German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome)
German iris; Iris germanica (a large iris with purple or white flowers, native to central and southern Europe)
German iris; Iris kochii (iris of northern Italy having deep blue-purple flowers; similar to but smaller than Iris germanica)
Dalmatian iris; Iris pallida (European iris having soft lilac-blue flowers)
Holonyms ("bearded iris" is a member of...):
genus Iris (large genus of perennials that develop from bulbs or rhizomes)
