1) Arlen heroine 2) Attraction for a butterfly 3) Aunt on Bringing Up Buddy 4) Author murdoch 5) Author murdoch or rainer 6) Bearded bloom 7) Bearded bloomer 8) Bearded blossom 9) Bearded flower 10) Bit of eye makeup 11) Blackberry lily 12) Blood Game novelist Johansen 13) Bloom in many Van Gogh works
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1) Blue flag 2) Coloredeyepart 3) Gardenperennial 4) Gladdon 5) Novelistmurdoch 6) Rainbowgoddess
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• (n.) An appearance resembling the rainbow; a prismatic play of colors. • (n.) See Fleur-de-lis, 2. • (n.) The rainbow. • (n.) 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. • (n....
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A circular diaphragm that contains the muscles which alter the amount of light that enters the eye by dilating or constricting the pupil. It has an opening in its center.
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(from the article `2001: Best Supporting Actor`) Other Nominees...Academy Award nomination and the Golden Globe Award for best actress in a drama. She was also nominated for a best actress Oscar for her portrayal ... [2 related articles]
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(Infrared Imaging Surveyor) See Astro-F.
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A small, two-stage, solid-propellant sounding rocket for exploring the upper atmosphere. The development of the Iris sounding rocket had begun at NRL prior to the transfer of its Rocket-Sonde group to NASA. Iris was built by the Atlantic Research Corp. for the Naval Bureau of Ordnance, with NRL moni...
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(minor planet 7) One of the brightest asteroids as seen from Earth with a maximum visual magnitude of 8.4, outshone only by Vesta, Ceres, and Pallas. An occupant of the main belt, it was discovered by John Hind in 1847. Diameter 208 km Spectral class S Semimajor axis 2....
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a partial obstruction consisting of one or more metal or dielectric thin plates at a transverse cross-section of a waveguide used for impedance transformation
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(i´ris) pl. i´rides the circular colored membrane behind the cornea, perforated by the pupil. It is made up of a flat bar of circular muscular fibers that surround the pupil, a thin layer of plain muscle fibers that dilate the pupil, and, on the side toward the interior of the eye, two layers of pigmented cells.
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A messenger of the gods, closely associated with rainbows.
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I'ris noun ;
plural English
Irises , Latin
Irides . [ Latin
iris ,
iridis , the goddess, Greek ..., ..., the rainbow, iris of the eye, the plant Iris. Confer
Orris .]
1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of t...
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Pigmented tissue lying behind the cornea that gives color to the eye (eg, blue eyes) and controls amount of light entering the eye by varying the size of the pupillary opening
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A variable aperture that controls exposure or the amount of light which is released from a lighting unit. (Camera/Lighting)
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A thin muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil of the eye.
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Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow
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(i;ris) The pigmented portion of the vascular tunic of the eye that surrounds the pupil and regulates its diameter.
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[Hellenic mythology] Goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods, employed especially by Zeus and Hera.
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A means of controlling the size of a lens aperture and therefore the amount of light passing through the lens.
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acronym: Incorporated Research Institution for Seismology
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acronym: infrared interferometer spectrometer
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iris diaphragm noun diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening
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(anatomy) In anatomy, the coloured muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil in the vertebrate eye. It contains radial muscle that increases the pupil diameter and circular muscle that constricts the pupil diameter. Both types of muscle respond involuntarily to light intensity
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(botany) In botany, any of a group of perennial northern temperate flowering plants belonging to the iris family. The leaves are usually sword-shaped; the purple, white, or yellow flowers have three upright inner petals and th...
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A ring of muscle that surrounds the pupil in the eye.
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