n.
1.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
2.plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
Idiom of the Day
catch-22
a situation which contradicts itself, a paradoxical situation
It was a catch-22 situation. If I went to work there would be problems but if I did not go to work there would also be problems.
