Any of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated.
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The large central part of the breastbone.
1 The purple gladiolus glows through all its green fields in early spring.
2 To-day I would forget my loved one, to recall only the gladiolus .
3 Broom, and cytisus, and hawthorn mingled with roses, gladiolus , and sainfoin.
4 Some tubers are very bulb-like in appearance, as the corms of crocus and gladiolus .
5 All over the land the gladiolus bulb and the ice man begin to swell.
6 Young Antyllus had requested a Roman dish he was homesick for: stuffed cuttlefish and baked gladiolus bulbs.
7 She had been weeding the gladiolus bed.
8 A neighboring border glowed with autumn flowers: ribands of asters, spikes of crimson gladiolus , ranks of dahlias.
9 The parentage of America is very much in doubt, as three prominent gladiolus breeders claim the honor of originating it.
10 It can be too jangly on the eye when it saturates certain plants such as salvia and gladiolus in summertime.
11 Sitting in the corner in a tattered gladiolus - blossom armchair, he looked increasingly grim, his fingers drumming loudly on the threadbare armrest.
12 They stay in blossom a long time, each stalk opening out slowly from the bottom to the top of the spike, like a gladiolus .
13 They had tea in the little garden, where mignonette, stocks, and tobacco plants were in flower, and spikes of early gladiolus were just opening.
14 I know you have to take them up in the winter and store them like gladiolus , and they do not require very heavy soil.
15 NE of the most popular flowers of the day is the Gladiolus .
16 The Gladiolus is another bright and interesting addition to our floral family.
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