irised

/ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/
adj 3

Definitions

adj

1

Having irises of a specified colour or kind.

Her eyes were gray-irised, and of that mould that seems to have belonged to the orbs of all the famous queens of hearts.

The butler, a dark stout Dravidian with liquid yellow-irised eyes like those of a dog, brought the brandy on a brass tray.

2

Shining with colours like those of the rainbow.

two parhelia, irised and very bright; but their centres were nearly of the same color, as the true sun

the wreaths of fitful vapour gliding through groves of pine, and irised around the pillars of waterfalls

3

Exhibiting the prismatic colours.

Heat decomposes this ammoniacal sulphure: in a certain space of time, a great many small irised needles, a line or two in length, are formed in it: they appear to be concrete ammoniacal sulphure in crystals.

Yellow and irised quartz also occurs in mica slat in Fitchburg.

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