irid rare.
(ˈaɪərɪd)
[f. L. īrid-, Gr. ἰριδ-, stem of īris, ἶρις, iris.]
1. The iris of the eye.
| 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 544 Negro albino. Hair white and wooly: irids white. 1848 C. Brontë J. Eyre v. (1857) 43 Brown eyes, with a benignant light in their irids. 1895 F. Thompson Sister Songs, [A joy that] Only lurks retired In the dim gloaming of thine irid. |
2. Bot. A plant of the N.O. Iridaceæ.
| 1866 Treas. Bot. 626 Iridaceæ..Irids. |