ORRIS
\ˈɒɹɪs], \ˈɒɹɪs], \ˈɒ_ɹ_ɪ_s]\
Definitions of ORRIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome
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fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines
By Princeton University
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German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome
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fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
By Oddity Software
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A peculiar pattern in which gold lace or silver lace is worked; especially, one in which the edges are ornamented with conical figures placed at equal distances, with spots between them.
By Noah Webster.
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The iris, a plant, the dried roots of which are used as a perfume or sachet powder, called orris root. Also, orrice.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A species of iris in the south of Europe, the dried root of which has a smell of violets, used in perfumery.
By Daniel Lyons
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).