noun
large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs
• Syn: ↑Iridaceae, ↑family Iridaceae
• Derivationally related forms: ↑iridaceous (for: ↑Iridaceae)
• Hypernyms: ↑liliid monocot family
• Hyponyms: ↑genus Iris
• Member Holonyms: ↑Liliales, ↑order Liliales
• Member Meronyms:
↑iridaceous plant, ↑Belamcanda, ↑genus Belamcanda, ↑genus Crocus, ↑genus Freesia, ↑genus Gladiolus, ↑Ixia, ↑genus Ixia, ↑Sisyrinchium, ↑genus Sisyrinchium, ↑Sparaxis, ↑genus Sparaxis
* * *
noun* * *
the plant family Iridaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having bulbs, corms, or rhizomes, sword-shaped grasslike leaves, and usually showy flowers, and including the blackberry lily, crocus, freesia, gladiolus, and iris.
* * *
iris family,
a group of monocotyledonous perennial plants widely distributed in temperate and warm regions of the world. The family includes iris, blackberry lily, crocus, gladiolus, and freesia.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.