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water flag

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noun

  1. a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.

Etymology

Origin of water flag

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

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O my crutch, is it not autumn when the fern is red and the water flag yellow?

From Ideas of Good and Evil by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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