meaning of iris
1. The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
2. The rainbow.
3. An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
4. The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
5. A genus of plants having showy flowers and bulbous or tuberous roots, of which the flower-de-luce (fleur-de-lis), orris, and other species of flag are examples. See Illust. of Flower-de-luce.
6. See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
7. Iris An object-oriented DBMS.
8. diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening
Related Words
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