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IRIDACEOUS PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("iridaceous plant" is a kind of...):
bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "iridaceous plant"):
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)
Belamcanda chinensis; blackberry-lily; leopard lily (garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry)
crocus (any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated)
freesia (any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers)
glad; gladiola; gladiolus; sword lily (any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated)
corn lily (any of several South African plants of the genus Ixia having grasslike leaves and clusters of showy variously colored lily-like flowers; widely cultivated)
blue-eyed grass (plant with grasslike foliage and delicate blue flowers)
Holonyms ("iridaceous plant" is a member of...):
family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)
