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gladiolus
[glad-ee-oh-luhs]
noun
plural
gladiolus, gladioli, gladioluses, gladioli.any plant of the genus Gladiolus, of the iris family, native especially to Africa, having erect, sword-shaped leaves and spikes of flowers in a variety of colors.
Anatomy.the middle and largest segment of the sternum.
gladiolus
/ ˌɡæɪˈəʊə /
noun
Also called: sword lily. gladiola.any iridaceous plant of the widely cultivated genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and spikes of funnel-shaped brightly coloured flowers
anatomy the large central part of the breastbone
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gladiolus1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gladiolus1
Example Sentences
They emerged to the Coronation Street theme, played Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and This Charming Man, and left waving bunches of gladioli.
Performances concluded with Dame Edna flinging hundreds of gladioli into the crowd, no mean feat aerodynamically.
From her humble suburban beginnings in the mid 1950s, plain Mrs Everage morphed into a global superstar, spreading her homespun philosophy and piles of gladioli wherever she went.
She is a poet of windows and reflections; of houses and shacks in Maine; of quarries, iced-over ponds and flowers: cow parsnips, red gladioli, globe thistles, wild geraniums.
“To be Christian is to be Republican is to be ‘pro-life,’” she said recently, sitting in a renovated shed-turned-office behind her house on the 40-acre farm of willows and gladiolus where she was raised.
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When To Use
The name gladiolus can refer to any plant in the genus Gladiolus, which is in the iris family. They are known for their sword-shaped leaves and brightly colored, funnel-shaped flowers.Due to the shape of its leaves, the gladiolus is sometimes called the sword lily. A gladiolus can also be called a gladiola. Gladiolus plants are sometimes informally called glads for short. The plural of gladiolus can be gladiolus, gladioli, or gladioluses.There are more than 300 species of gladiolus and their flowers come in many different colors. They are commonly used as ornamental flowers by gardeners and florists.The gladiolus is the one of the August birth flowers (a flower that’s associated with a particular month in the same way as a birthstone).The word gladiolus has another meaning in the context of anatomy, in which it refers to the middle and largest segment of the sternum (the breastbone).Example: We used four different kinds of gladiolus to make the wedding bouquet.
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