iridaceae

1. 1.

   large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs

   Synonymsfamily Iridaceaeiris family

   Broaderliliid monocot family

   Narrowergenus Iris

   Part ofLiliales

Other forms of iridaceae

plural

iridaceaes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about iridaceae

What does iridaceae mean?

iridaceae means "large family of usually perennial geophytic herbs with rhizomes or corms or bulbs".

How many syllables are in iridaceae?

iridaceae has 5 syllables: i-ri-da-ce-ae. The stress falls on "da".

What is another word for iridaceae?

Close synonyms include family Iridaceae, iris family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is iridaceae a common word?

iridaceae 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.