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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 | ||||
| 20% | 9 | Producer of red-and-white blooms | ||
noun • bulbous plant having showy white to reddish flowers | ||||
| 20% | 7 | Sea __ (reef dweller that "blooms") | ||
noun • any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves • marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton | ||||
One Grows Up And Blooms
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IRISES which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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IRISES
Updated: October 14, 2023
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