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Webster 1913 Edition

Irideous

{

Irˊi-da′ceous

,

I-rid′e-ous

, }

Adj.

[From NL.

Iris

,

Iridis

, the Iris.]

(Bot.)

Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (

Iridaceæ

), which includes the genera

Iris

,

Ixia

,

Crocus

,

Gladiolus

, and many others.