iris

Nouns

• (n) plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals fleur-de-lis, sword lily, flag,
• (n) muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye
• (n) diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening iris diaphragm,

Synonyms

Words of close approximity