IRIDACEOUS PLANT

• IRIDACEOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun IRIDACEOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae

  Familiarity information: IRIDACEOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

• IRIDACEOUS PLANT (noun)

Meaning:

Any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("iridaceous plant" is a kind of...):

bulbous plant (plant growing from a bulb)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "iridaceous plant"):

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 lilylike flowers; widely cultivated)

blue-eyed grass (plant with grasslike foliage and delicate blue flowers)

Holonyms ("iridaceous plant" is a member of...):

family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family (large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs)