iris cristata

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   low-growing summer-flowering iris of northeastern United States

   Synonymsdwarf iris

   Broaderiris

Questions about iris cristata

What does iris cristata mean?

iris cristata means "low-growing summer-flowering iris of northeastern United States".

What is another word for iris cristata?

Close synonyms include dwarf iris. 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 iris cristata a common word?

iris cristata 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.