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JAPANESE IRIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Japanese iris mean?
• JAPANESE IRIS (noun)
The noun JAPANESE IRIS has 1 sense:
1. iris native to Japan having large showy flowers
Familiarity information: JAPANESE IRIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Iris native to Japan having large showy flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Iris kaempferi; Japanese iris
Hypernyms ("Japanese iris" is a kind of...):
beardless iris (any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls))
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