A popular name of the iris (Iris Pseudacorus and Iris fœtidissima; the latter is sometimes distinguished as ‘stinking gladdon’). corn-gladdon (quot…

†(a) The wild iris or gladdon, n. (b) Any plant of the iridaceous genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and spikes of brilliant flowers; the…

One of various endogenous plants, with a bladed or ensiform leaf, mostly growing in moist places. Now regarded as properly denoting a member of the…

The flower of a plant of the genus Iris (esp. I. pseudacorus); the plant itself. Cf. flag, n.1 1.

Apparently: gladdon or stinking iris, Iris foetidissima.

A common Eurasian iris with yellow flowers, Iris pseudacorus, typically found by lakes and rivers and in other damp locations.

= flag, n.1 1.

With qualification, applied to: (a) various other plants of the genus Lilium or family Liliaceæ, the qualifying word indicating the colour…

The plant Iris fœtidissima. Obsolete.

In quot. 1562 apparently denoting the yellow iris or water-flag (Iris pseudacorus).

(a) the German iris, Iris germanica; (b) (more fully sweet garden flag) the sweet flag, Acorus calamus.

The Florentine Iris (Iris florentina), a species with large white flowers.

Botany. A genus of plants, the type of the natural order Iridaceæ, natives of Europe, North Africa, and the temperate regions of Asia and America…

Botany. A genus of plants, the type of the natural order Iridaceæ, natives of Europe, North Africa, and the temperate regions of Asia and America…

Either of two irises growing in streams, pools, and marshes: yellow flag, Iris pseudacorus, of Eurasia, and blue flag, I. versicolor, of North…

Botany. A genus of plants, the type of the natural order Iridaceæ, natives of Europe, North Africa, and the temperate regions of Asia and America…

(See quots.)

= Florentine iris n.

Iris fœtidissima.

A name for various coarse grassy, rush-like or flag-like plants growing in wet places; also (in… With defining words. red sedge n. Obsolete ?…

(see quot.).

Any of various irises grown for their fragrant rhizomes, spec. (more fully Florentine orris) the whitish-flowered I. germanica var. florentina.

A Mediterranean plant with an edible bulblike corm, the Barbary nut or Spanish nut, Moraea sisyrinchium (family Iridaceae); (with modifying word) any…

= flower-de-luce, fleur-de-lis, n.

? = Florentine iris n. at Florentine, adj. n.compounds.

cuttle-bung n. a knife used for cutting purses. cuttle-haft n. a popular name of the Yellow Flag, Iris Pseudacorus.

More fully blue flag iris. The North American plant Iris versicolor (family Iridaceae), which has distinctive large blue flowers and is poisonous…

attributive. snake's-head iris, an iris of the Mediterranean region, Hermodactylus tuberosus.

the stinking iris, Iris foetidissima, of western Europe, the leaves of which, when crushed, emit an odour likened to that of roast-beef.

A rush or sedge growing in ditches, esp. the yellow iris, Iris Pseudacorus.

an iris.

A name for various coarse grassy, rush-like or flag-like plants growing in wet places; also (in… With defining words. red sedge n. Obsolete ?…

the blue flag of eastern North America, Iris versicolor.

= flag, n.1

(a) Moræa (Iris) robinsoniana, of Lord Howe's Island, New South Wales; (b) Dombeya natalensis, of South Africa.

an iris, Iris susiana, with large purple-black and grey flowers.

= flag, n.1

a blue-flowered iris, Iris missouriensis, found in damp places in the mountains of south-western North America.

the white or pale-blue iris (I. Florentina).

a variety of Iris kæmpferi or I. lævigata.

the common yellow flag, Iris pseudacorus, and other irises.

the yellow water-flag, Iris Pseudacorus.

Botany. A genus of plants, the type of the natural order Iridaceæ, natives of Europe, North Africa, and the temperate regions of Asia and America…

Applied (chiefly locally) to various plants. a species of iris, Iris Xiphium.

Iris alata, a native of Spain and Northern Africa.