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English iris

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noun

  1. an iris, Iris xiphiodes, native to the Pyrenees, having two or three deep purple-blue flowers with golden patches.

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The wallflowers, interspersed with Spanish and English iris, are massed thruout this court, with rhododendrons in the corners.

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