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Gladiolus   /glˌædiˈoʊləs/   Listen
Gladiolus

noun
(pl. L. gladioli, E. gladioluses)
1.
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.  Synonyms: glad, gladiola, sword lily.
2.
The large central part of the breastbone.  Synonym: corpus sternum.



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... together were seedlings from the same parent, and that from being closely related they had little power of fertilising one another. (8/6. Some remarkable cases are given in my 'Variation under Domestication' chapter 17 2nd edition volume 2 page 121, of hybrids of Gladiolus and Cistus, any one of which could be fertilised by pollen from any other, but ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Gladiolus" :   corpus sternum, os, breastbone, sword lily, genus Gladiolus, bone, iridaceous plant, glad, gladiola, sternum


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