iris vs beardless iris

beardless iris vs iris

iris and beardless iris both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
iris	Yes	No	No	No
beardless iris	Yes	No	No	No

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

iris: 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 iris 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.

iris (noun)	beardless iris (noun)
diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening	any of numerous wild or cultivated irises having no hairs on the drooping sepals (the falls)
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
plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

Difference between iris and beardless iris

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