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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Iris \I"ris\, n.; pl E. {Irises}, L. {Irides}. [L. iris, iridis, the goddess, Gr ?, ?, the rainbow, iris of the eye, the plant Iris. Cf {Orris}.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods. --Shak. 2. The rainbow. --Sir T. Browne. 3. An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors. --Tennyson. 4. (Anat.) The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See {Eye}. 5. (Bot.) 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. (Her.) See {Fleur-de-lis}, 2. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Iris \I"ris\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Inner circle of an oscillated color spot. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: iris n 1: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals [syn: {flag}, {fleur-de-lis}, {sword lily}] 2: muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil; it forms the colored portion of the eye 3: thin overlapping plates can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening [syn: {iris diaphragm}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: IRIS Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship of Brown University (Providence RI). (1994-11-04) From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Iris An {object-oriented} {DBMS}. (1994-11-04) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: IRIS Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems (org., Canada)
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