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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Flower-de-luce

· Flow·er-de-luce · IPA
01 n. A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the…
  1. 1.
    A genus of perennial herbs (Iris) with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem.(Bot.)