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BEARDLESS IRIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("beardless 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 "beardless iris"):
Dutch iris; Iris filifolia (bulbous Spanish iris with red-violet flowers)
Iris kaempferi; Japanese iris (iris native to Japan having large showy flowers)
Dutch iris; Iris tingitana (bulbous Spanish iris having blue flowers)
Iris xiphium; Spanish iris; xiphium iris (bulbous iris of western Mediterranean region having usually violet-purple flowers)
Holonyms ("beardless iris" is a member of...):
genus Iris (large genus of perennials that develop from bulbs or rhizomes)
