Iris : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Iris	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Iris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
iris n plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals Synonym(s): iris, flag, fleur-de-lis, sword lily 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 diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening Synonym(s): iris, iris diaphragm
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[94]l.) Inner circle of an oscillated color spot.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [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 (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Iris An {object-oriented} {DBMS}. (1994-11-04)