English > iridaceous plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae. |
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| Member of | Iridaceae, family Iridaceae, iris family | large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs |
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| Narrower | blackberry-lily, leopard lily, Belamcanda chinensis | garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry |
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| blue-eyed grass | plant with grasslike foliage and delicate blue flowers |
| corn lily | Any of several South African plants of the genus Ixia having grasslike leaves and clusters of showy variously colored lily-like flowers |
| crocus | Any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers |
| 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 |
| gladiolus, gladiola, glad, 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 |
| iris, flag, fleur-de-lis, sword lily | plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals |
| Broader | bulbous plant | plant growing from a bulb |
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| Spanish | iridácea, planta iridácea |
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| Catalan | iridàcia, planta iridàcia |
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