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Gladiolus   /glˌædiˈoʊləs/   Listen
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Gladiolus  n.  (pl. L. gladioli, E. gladioluses)  
1.
(Bot.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily.
2.
(Anat.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum.





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... together were seedlings from the same parent, and that from being closely related they had little power of fertilising one another. (8/6. Some remarkable cases are given in my 'Variation under Domestication' chapter 17 2nd edition volume 2 page 121, of hybrids of Gladiolus and Cistus, any one of which could be fertilised by pollen from any other, but ...
— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin


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