iris

iris is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of the gods. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 9 senses

Definitions

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

   Synonyms: flag

Synonyms

flag

Common word forms

irised, irises, irising

Words from these letters

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