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Definition of Iridaceous plant

1. Noun. Any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Iridaceous Plant

Literary usage of Iridaceous plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1901)
"... Sw., a South African iridaceous plant which has become acclimatised in certain South Australian pastures, and is suspected of poisoning stock. ..."

2. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1864)
"This new and " lovely iridaceous plant" appears to be a rival to the splendid gladioli, not only in its general habit and style of flowering, ..."

3. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"1], a curious new iridaceous plant, of small stature, with a slender creeping rhizome, terete simple stems about 6 inches high, terete rigid ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"Proceeding on, I found, in more open situations, a pretty little iridaceous plant (154), perhaps Libertia ..."

5. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... given to an iridaceous plant found in Guiana ; and was afterwards ai>- plied by Ker to a closely allied plant of the same order, which now constitutes ..."

6. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1861)
"It was apparently an iridaceous plant, with narrow leaves, but indeterminable in the state in which it was exhibited. It was nevertheless of an elegant ..."

7. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1901)
"... Sw., a South African iridaceous plant which has become acclimatised in certain South Australian pastures, and is suspected of poisoning stock. ..."

8. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1864)
"This new and " lovely iridaceous plant" appears to be a rival to the splendid gladioli, not only in its general habit and style of flowering, ..."

9. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"1], a curious new iridaceous plant, of small stature, with a slender creeping rhizome, terete simple stems about 6 inches high, terete rigid ..."

10. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"Proceeding on, I found, in more open situations, a pretty little iridaceous plant (154), perhaps Libertia ..."

11. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... given to an iridaceous plant found in Guiana ; and was afterwards ai>- plied by Ker to a closely allied plant of the same order, which now constitutes ..."

12. Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of London by Horticultural Society of London (1861)
"It was apparently an iridaceous plant, with narrow leaves, but indeterminable in the state in which it was exhibited. It was nevertheless of an elegant ..."

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