iridaceous plant

Questions about iridaceous plant

What does iridaceous plant mean?

iridaceous plant means "any bulbous plant of the family Iridaceae".

Is iridaceous plant a common word?

iridaceous plant 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.