Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The popular name of the plants of the genus Gladiolus, bearing red or white flowers, and much cultivated as ornamental plants.
- noun The yellow flag or flower-deluce. Iris pseudacorus, now naturalized in the eastern United States and common in cultivation.
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Examples
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Nevertheless, I would have used Gerarde's name, if the corn-rose were as much a rose as the corn-flag is a flag.
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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You must observe that there are three kinds of plants which are said to have bulbous roots: those which are solid, and which should be properly called corms, such as the crocus, the corn-flag, and many of the half-hardy plants with similar half-tubular flowers; the tunicated bulbs, which may be peeled off in scales, such as the onion, the hyacinth, and the tulip; and the scaly bulbs such as the lily.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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