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Meaning of iris

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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: {iris}, {flag}, {fleur-de-lis},
           {sword lily}]
      2: muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which
         in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it
         forms the colored portion of the eye
      3: diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be
         adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening [syn:
         {iris}, {iris diaphragm}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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