iris filifolia

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   bulbous Spanish iris with red-violet flowers

   SynonymsDutch iris

   Broaderbeardless iris

Questions about iris filifolia

What does iris filifolia mean?

iris filifolia means "bulbous Spanish iris with red-violet flowers".

What is another word for iris filifolia?

Close synonyms include Dutch 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 filifolia a common word?

iris filifolia 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.