iris pallida

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   European iris having soft lilac-blue flowers

   SynonymsDalmatian iris

   Broaderbearded iris

Questions about iris pallida

What does iris pallida mean?

iris pallida means "European iris having soft lilac-blue flowers".

What is another word for iris pallida?

Close synonyms include Dalmatian 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 pallida a common word?

iris pallida 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.