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Yellow iris   /jˈɛloʊ ˈaɪrəs/   Listen
Yellow iris

noun
1.
Common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated.  Synonyms: Iris pseudacorus, yellow flag, yellow water flag.






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"Yellow iris" Quotes from Famous Books



... Bisanthe in Macedonia, author of an epic called the /Heracleia/ according to Athenaeus. "The yellow iris of Phaedimus" is mentioned in the /Garland/ of Meleager, l. 51. Two of the four epigrams under his name, a beautiful dedication, and a very noble epitaph, are in this selection; the other two, which are in the appendix of epigrams in mixed metres at the end of the Palatine Anthology ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail

... the very dates of them all—the reddening elm, the arum, the hawthorn leaf, the celandine, the may; the yellow iris of the waters, the heath of the hillside. The time of the nightingale—the place to hear the first note; onwards to the drooping fern and the time of the redwing—the place of his first note, so welcome to the sportsman ...
— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies



Words linked to "Yellow iris" :   sword lily, Iris pseudacorus, yellow water flag, flag, iris, fleur-de-lis



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