Gladiolus or crocus

Usage examples of irid.

Great Unknown, He who is the fountain source of love, and whose hands on the sable parchment of the northern skies perchance write, in irid traceries of fire, mystic messages of hope which none, of all humanity, during all the centuries, has ever learned entirely to understand.

I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.

The sharply defined eyes of avian predators, melting gold irids hot and hungry.