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Definition of Roast beef plant
1. Noun. Iris with purple flowers and foul-smelling leaves; southern and western Europe and North Africa.
Generic synonyms: Flag, Fleur-de-lis, Iris, Sword Lily
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roast Beef Plant
Literary usage of Roast beef plant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Floral Decorations for the Dwelling House: A Practical Guide to the Home by Annie Hassard (1876)
"THE GLADWIN AND ARBUTUS FOR DECORATIVE PURPOSES. OT until lately has the variegated
form of the common Roast-beef Plant (Iris ..."
2. Familiar Wild Flowers by Frederick Edward Hulme (1902)
"To some, however, this odour has been compared to roast beef; hence another common
English name is the roast beef plant. This is indeed a case where ..."
3. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1852)
"It seems odd that learned botanists should object to the scent of roast beef if
unattainable at the time ; and I must say that the " roast-beef-plant" ..."
4. Duffy's Hibernian Magazine: A Monthly Journal of Legends, Tales, and Stories (1861)
"Shrinking from the breeze and sunshine may be noted the heavy black- streaked
purple flowers of the familiar roast-beef plant (Iris ..."
5. The Farmer's Encyclopædia, and Dictionary of Rural Affairs: Embracing All by Cuthbert William Johnson (1844)
"The disks of the larger segments of the flowers are pencilled with dark purple.
8. Stinking iris, or Gladwyn. Roast-beef plant ..."
6. The Book of the Iris by Richard Irwin Lynch, Henry Ewbank (1904)
"Roast-beef plant, Gladwyn. The scent of the broken leaves, which has been compared
to roast beef, boiled milk, and wet starch, is sufficient to distinguish ..."
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