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noun • plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals • muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye • diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening | ||||
| 34% | 11 | Plant organs that resemble bulbs but are not true bulbs | ||
noun • a solid bulblike enlargement of the stem of some orchids | ||||
| 21% | 5 | Noble gas used in light bulbs | ||
noun • a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere | ||||
Blooms From Bulbs
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