iridaceous plant

Noun
  1. Any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae (synset 112431966)
    is a type of: bulbous plant - plant growing from a bulb
    subtypes:
    • 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
    • belamcanda chinensis, blackberry-lily, leopard lily - garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberry
    • crocus - any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated
    • freesia - any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowers
    • glad, gladiola, gladiolus, sword lily - any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated
    • corn lily - any of several South African plants of the genus Ixia having grasslike leaves and clusters of showy variously colored lily-like flowers; widely cultivated
    • blue-eyed grass - plant with grasslike foliage and delicate blue flowers
    belongs to: family iridaceae, iridaceae, iris family - large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs

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