gladioli
- plural of gladiolus.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The claim is sometime made that funerals are about the living, but that reduces the event to a group therapy session, overlaid with the cloying odor of lilies and gladioli.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
They emerged to the Coronation Street theme, played Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and This Charming Man, and left waving bunches of gladioli.
From BBC • Jun. 26, 2023
Another woman offered the frontman a bouquet of flowers, which prompted a few words on one of his favorite performers, Morrissey, who’s known for tossing gladioli during his performances.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2015
Many plants—like ginger, onion, gladioli, and dahlia—continue to grow from buds that are present on the surface of the stem.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
When he paints inside, he paints flowers of all kinds—roses, zinnias, gladioli, asters, and sunflowers, his favorite flower.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
