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irisless

irisless adjective: without irises.

Adjective

irisless (not comparable)

  1. Without irises.
    • Whether the granite menagerie was Arbo’s idea or the sculptor’s vision is not clear. The animals—a baby rhino, a lion, a hyena, on cocked forelegs, with drooping necks, irisless eyes—watch a horizon that does not exist for the buildings, stoop to drink from an oasis that does not exist for the...1999, Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist, Fleet (2017), page 245

Origin of irisless

From iris + -less.

Questions about irisless

What does irisless mean?
Irisless means without irises.
What part of speech is irisless?
Irisless is an adjective.

Words near irisless in the dictionary

  1. Irishwoman
  2. Irishwomen
  3. Irishy
  4. irisin
  5. irising
  6. irisless
  7. irislike
  8. irisology
  9. irisresorcinol
  10. iristectorin
  11. iritic

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