BEARDED IRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bearded iris mean? 

• BEARDED IRIS (noun)
  The noun BEARDED IRIS has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)

  Familiarity information: BEARDED IRIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEARDED IRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)