NOUN
- common yellow-flowered iris of Europe and North Africa, naturalized in United States and often cultivated
How To Use yellow iris In A Sentence
- His only weapon was a machete, and he only had one good eye with a yellow iris that watched for his victims.
- In and alongside the stream, a different suite of plants can be found including yellow iris, hemlock water-dropwort, lesser spearwort and brooklime.
- Yellow iris, or yellow flag, is now in bloom along the banks of lakes and rivers. Times, Sunday Times
- A stream runs along the western edge of the reserve, providing habitat for a different community of plants including sedges, yellow iris and amphibious bistort.
- Among the vegetation in the northern sector of the marsh lie tall herbs including meadow-sweet, wild angelica and figwort, while strands of yellow iris, greater tussock sedge and alder carr can also be seen.
- The voles breed in burrows in the bank, and feed on plants such as yellow iris. Times, Sunday Times
- Among the vegetation in the northern sector of the marsh lie tall herbs including meadow-sweet, wild angelica and figwort, while strands of yellow iris, greater tussock sedge and alder carr can also be seen.
- Torch-bearers and heralds would lead them by the tufts of yellow iris down the winding path to the cave, outside which an altar stood, and the great Saronia waited, with head thrown back and hands outspread towards the ground; her raven hair flowed down and lay in waves on folds of costly yellow silk bestudded with stars; her face was calm as death, rigid as a marble statue; emotion showed no place in that mysterious being. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus
- Yellow flag, or yellow iris, has grown tall beside rivers. Times, Sunday Times
- In and alongside the stream, a different suite of plants can be found including yellow iris, hemlock water-dropwort, lesser spearwort and brooklime.