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    IRIS FAMILY

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Iridaceae; Iridaceae; iris family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("iris family" is a kind of...):

    liliid monocot family (family of monocotyledonous plants of the subclass Liliidae; mostly herbs usually with petaloid sepals and petals and compound pistils)

    Meronyms (members of "iris family"):

    iridaceous plant (any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae)

    Belamcanda; genus Belamcanda; genus Crocus (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)

    genus Freesia (cormous perennial herbs; native to South Africa)

    genus Gladiolus (gladiolas)

    genus Ixia; Ixia (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae)

    genus Sisyrinchium; Sisyrinchium (chiefly North American grasslike herbs)

    genus Sparaxis; Sparaxis (deciduous perennial herbs of South Africa)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "iris family"):

    genus Iris (large genus of perennials that develop from bulbs or rhizomes)

    Holonyms ("iris family" is a member of...):

    Liliales; order Liliales (an order of monocotyledonous plants including Amaryllidaceae and Liliaceae and Iridaceae)

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