释义 |
ixia /ˈɪksɪə /nounA South African plant of the iris family, which bears showy six-petalled starlike flowers on tall wiry stems and has sword-shaped leaves.- Genus Ixia, family Iridaceae: many cultivars.
Bulbs native to Mediterranean and other climates [include] babiana, sparaxis, tritonia, watsonia, bearded iris, ixia, Oxalis purpurea, Scilla Peruviana, freesias, the small alliums, etc....- Finally, fynbos includes more than 1 500 species of bulbs or geophytes, many of which have been developed worldwide as valuable horticultural plants, e.g., freesias, agapanthus, gladioli, and ixias.
- Ixias have flat one inch to one and one-half inch flowers on top of wiry 10 to 15-inch stems.
OriginModern Latin, from Latin, denoting a kind of thistle, from Greek. Rhymesasphyxia, elixir |