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# iris

«iris» in Mova's school dictionary: **the coloured ring in your eye around the black pupil; it…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an iris, irises)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The iris is the coloured ring in your eye around the black pupil; it gets bigger or smaller to control how much light goes into the eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#m1)

2) An iris is a tall garden flower with sword-shaped leaves and flowers often purple, blue, yellow or white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#m2)

3) (a name) Iris is a girl's name; in Greek myths Iris was the goddess of the rainbow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about the eye, the iris and the pupil let in more light in the dark and less in bright light; eye colour is the colour of the iris. In nature and art, irises are flowers painted by Van Gogh. It also appears as a name. Phrases: «the iris of the eye», «blue irises».

### examples

- The iris is the coloured part of your eye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x1)
- In bright light, the iris makes the pupil smaller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x2)
- Her irises are green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x3)
- Purple irises grew by the pond. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x4)
- Van Gogh painted a field of irises. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x5)
- My great-aunt is called Iris. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x6)
- The rainbow goddess Iris carried messages for the gods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x7)
- Iris is usually represented seated behind the chariot of Hera, ready to do the bidding of her royal mistress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/#x8)

### note

Countable: plural irises (sometimes «irides» in science). Pronounced «EYE-ris». The pupil is the black hole in the middle; the iris is around it — a common mix-up. The fleur-de-lis symbol is based on an iris.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «iris» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iris/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.