BEARDLESS IRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does beardless iris mean? 

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

1. any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEARDLESS IRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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)