iris family

What does iris family mean?

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

What is another word for iris family?

Close synonyms include Iridaceae, family Iridaceae. 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 family a common word?

iris family 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for iris family come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.