iris

iris has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods.
• n.. The rainbow.
• n.. An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors.
• n.. The contractile membrane perforated by the pupil, and forming the colored portion of the eye. See Eye.
• n.. 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.
• n.. See Fleur-de-lis, 2.
• n.. diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening
• n.. 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
• n.. plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals