beardless iris

1. 1.

   any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)

   Broaderiris

   NarrowerDutch irisJapanese irisSpanish iris

   Part ofgenus Iris

Questions about beardless iris

What does beardless iris mean?

beardless iris means "any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)".

Is beardless iris a common word?

beardless iris is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.