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Definition of Bearded iris
1. Noun. Any of numerous wild or cultivated irises with hairlike structures on the falls (the drooping sepals).
Generic synonyms: Flag, Fleur-de-lis, Iris, Sword Lily
Specialized synonyms: Florentine Iris, Iris Florentina, Iris Germanica Florentina, Orris, German Iris, Iris Germanica, German Iris, Iris Kochii, Dalmatian Iris, Iris Pallida
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bearded Iris
Literary usage of Bearded iris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Garden's Story: For Pleasures and Trials of an Amateur Gardener by George Herman Ellwanger (1889)
"The great bearded iris is one of the most effective border plants; the cut flowers
are also beautiful when arranged with their sword-shaped foliage. ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"The first rains usually start a few of the dwarf and tall bearded iris into a
premature flowering, this being so regular in the case of the Iris Kochii ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... of central Europe, " the most common purple Fleur de Luce " of Ray, is the
large common blue iris of gardens, the bearded iris or fleur do luce. ..."
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