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Definition of Iris family
1. Noun. Large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs.
Generic synonyms: Liliid Monocot Family
Group relationships: Liliales, Order Liliales
Member holonyms: Iridaceous Plant, Belamcanda, Genus Belamcanda, Genus Crocus, Genus Freesia, Genus Gladiolus, Genus Ixia, Ixia, Genus Sisyrinchium, Sisyrinchium, Genus Sparaxis, Sparaxis
Specialized synonyms: Genus Iris
Derivative terms: Iridaceous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Iris Family
Literary usage of Iris family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"iris family. Perennial herbs with narrow equitant 2-ranked leaves and perfect
regular or irregular mostly clustered flowers subtended by bracts. ..."
2. Materia medica and therapeutics: Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Douglas Fergusson Phillips (1874)
"THE iris family. AN order of about 500 species of herbaceous, perennial, and petaloid
... iris family."
3. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1906)
"... but many stronger species, when of good size, can be planted, and do well, in
heavy garden soil. THE iris family. WJ MOYLE, Union Grove. ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"iris family. Perennial herbs with narrow equitant 2-ranked leaves and perfect
regular or irregular mostly clustered flowers subtended by bracts. ..."
5. Materia medica and therapeutics: Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Douglas Fergusson Phillips (1874)
"THE iris family. AN order of about 500 species of herbaceous, perennial, and petaloid
... iris family."
6. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1906)
"... but many stronger species, when of good size, can be planted, and do well, in
heavy garden soil. THE iris family. WJ MOYLE, Union Grove. ..."
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