fleur-de-lis vs beardless iris

beardless iris vs fleur-de-lis

fleur-de-lis and beardless iris both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
fleur-de-lis	Yes	No	No	No
beardless iris	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, beardless iris is a hyponym of fleur-de-lis; that is, beardless iris is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than fleur-de-lis:

fleur-de-lis: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
beardless iris: any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)

Other hyponyms of fleur-de-lis include bearded iris, bulbous iris, dwarf iris, Iris cristata, gladdon, gladdon iris, Iris foetidissima, roast beef plant, stinking gladwyn, stinking iris, Iris persica, Persian iris, Iris pseudacorus, yellow flag, yellow iris, yellow water flag, dwarf iris, Iris verna, vernal iris, blue flag, Iris versicolor, Iris virginica, southern blue flag, English iris, Iris xiphioides.

fleur-de-lis (noun)	beardless iris (noun)
(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris	any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)
plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

Difference between fleur-de-lis and beardless iris

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.