iridaceous plant

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1.iridaceous plant - any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceaefamily Iridaceae, Iridaceae, iris family - large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbsfleur-de-lis, iris, sword lily, flag - plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepalsBelamcanda chinensis, blackberry-lily, leopard lily - garden plant whose capsule discloses when ripe a mass of seeds resembling a blackberrycrocus - 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 cultivatedfreesia - any of several plants of the genus Freesia valued for their one-sided clusters of usually fragrant yellow or white or pink tubular flowersglad, 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 cultivatedcorn lily - any of several South African plants of the genus Ixia having grasslike leaves and clusters of showy variously colored lily-like flowers; widely cultivatedblue-eyed grass - plant with grasslike foliage and delicate blue flowersbulbous plant - plant growing from a bulb