Many species in the iris family have a great economic importance in ornamental horticulture and the cut flower industry, especially Gladiolus, Freesia, Sparaxis, Iris, Tigridia ( tiger lily ), Ixia ( corn lily ), Romulea, Neomarica, Moraea ( butterfly lily ), Nemastylis, Belamcanda, Sisyrinchium ( blue-eyed grass ), Crocosmia and Trimezia.

Self organizing map of Fisher's Iris flower data.

Neurons ( 40 × 40 square grid ) are trained for 250 iterations with a learning rate of 0. 1 using the normalized Iris flower data set which has four-dimensional data vectors.

* The sepals of the Iris flower

* The college yearbook is named Iris, for the flower that once grew in great abundance near Cowles Hall.

Prints produced by an IRIS printer are commonly called " IRIS prints ", " IRIS proofs " or simply " IRISes " ( and often miscapitalized " Iris ", like the flower ).

Satellite data from CERES has led researchers investigating Lindzen's theory to conclude that the Iris effect would instead warm the atmosphere .< ref > Lindzen disputed this, claiming that the negative feedback from high-level clouds was still larger than the weak positive feedback estimated by Lin et al .< ref >

Late on October 5, the Hurricane Hunters reported a circulation with flight-level winds of 74 mph ( 119 km / h ), which was adjusted to a surface intensity of 60 mph ( 95 km / h ); based on the data, the depression was upgraded to Tropical Storm Iris about 155 mi ( 250 km ) south of the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

Mascagni himself wrote a pastoral comedy ( L ' amico Fritz ), a symbolist work set in Japan ( Iris ), and a couple of medieval romances ( Isabeau and Parisina ).

He was torn between the two women and in late 1958 left Iris and moved to Thames Ditton in Surrey to set up home.

In response to the " ET " overprints, Venizelos ' Provisional Government ordered the engraving and printing of a new set of stamps from Perkins, Bacon and Co. Their design was based on the Iris stamps from the 1911 issue, with the additional inscription ΠΡΟΣΩΡΙΝΗ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΙΣ ( Provisional Government ).

His storyline choices, however, such as the glamorous wedding of Felicia Gallant ( Linda Dano ) to Mitch Blake ( William Gray Espy ), and the return of Mac Cory's daughter Iris ( Carmen Duncan ) set the stage for engrossing story in the years to come.

Iris initially set out to visit her grown son Dennis ( Jim Poyner ), who had relocated from Bay City to Houston.

Iris Davies ( 1935 – 20 July 2010 ), pen name Iris Gower, was a novelist, noted for her many historical romances, most of which are set in the British seaport of Swansea and the Gower Peninsula, from which she took her nom-de-plume.

Spier enjoyed moving in artistic circles and set up his own publishing house, by the name of " Iris.

In this film, a period piece set in the mid-1940s just after VE Day, she was cast as Iris Kovacs, a lighthearted Cockney bride who travels to rural Pennsylvania to live with her new American G. I.

V2Solutions, Inter-connected Stock Exchange of India ( ISE ), Iris Business Services, Cyquator, 3i Infotech, Tracmail, Satyam, Patni and Sify are among the companies who have set up offices there.

He is about five times as big as Iris, is black and red with patterns down his back, and has a small set of wings at the end of his tail.

The Arcadian Court also figures prominently in Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin, as the centre of Toronto's high society to which Iris Chase Griffen is introduced.

Sega was introduced to Iris in 2001.

At the same time, Nigel is introduced to Iris and becomes infatuated with her.

Joining them all is a string section from Aarhus, Denmark introduced to the band by Brian Lopez where coincidentally the rest of Giant Sand are from including violinists Asger Christensen and Iris Jakobsen, who, ironically, was born in Tucson.

Harold Holt is most famously commemorated by the Harold Holt Swim Centre in the Melbourne ( Australia ) suburb of Glen Iris.

This was augmented on 24 June 1943 by a long cable between Cemaes Bay in Anglesea and Port Erin, which had the world's first submerged repeater, laid by HMCS Iris.

Meanwhile, SGI would continue to try to maintain their customers tied to SGI hardware by developing the advanced and proprietary Iris Inventor and Iris Performer programming APIs.

According to a December report by the Corporación Nuevo Arco Iris NGO, 473 FARC-EP guerrillas and 357 members of the Colombian security forces died in combat between January and September 2010.

Nuevo Arco Iris head León Valencia considered that FARC guerrillas have reacted to a series of successful military blows against them by splitting up their forces into smaller groups and intensifying the offensive use of anti-personnel land mines, leading to what he called a further " degradation " of the conflict.

Leland Stanford, the university's founder, as painted by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in 1881 and now on display at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts | Cantor Center

* Iris ( EP ), by Miranda Sex Garden

* Iris ( opera ), by Pietro Mascagni

* " Iris ", a song by The Breeders on the album Pod

* " Iris ", a song by Live on the album Throwing Copper

* Iris ( 1987 film ), produced by New Concorde

For concerts and recordings they are joined mainly by Hoshiko Yamane, Iris Camaa, Linda Spa and Bernhard Beibl.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

* 1993: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück

Sandra March as Peggy Rogers ; Mary Finney as Mrs Lily Mortar ; Denise Alexander as Evelyn Munn ; Toni Hallaran as Helen Burton ; Carolyn King as Lois Fisher ; Nancy Plehn as Catherine ; Janet Parker as Rosalie Wells ; Iris Mann as Mary Tilford ; Kim Hunter as Karen Wright ; Patricia Neal as Martha Dobie ; Robert Pastene as Doctor Joseph Cardin ; Leora Thatcher as Agatha ; Katherine Emmett as Mrs Amelia Tilford ; Gordon Russell as A Grocery Boy.

Between 1507 and 1511 Dürer worked on some of his most celebrated paintings: Adam and Eve ( 1507 ), The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand ( 1508, for Frederick of Saxony ), Virgin with the Iris ( 1508 ), the altarpiece Assumption of the Virgin ( 1509, for Jacob Heller of Frankfurt ), and Adoration of the Trinity ( 1511, for Matthaeus Landauer ).

On another night, 12-year-old child prostitute Iris ( Jodie Foster ) enters Travis's cab, attempting to escape her pimp Matthew " Sport " ( Harvey Keitel ).

* Two groups of Iris species, family Iridaceae: subgenus Xiphium ( the " Dutch " irises ) and subgenus Hermodactyloides ( the miniature " rock garden " irises ).

For Iris Chang's book, see The Rape of Nanking ( book ).

Their daughters were actresses Viola Tree ( who married theatre critic Alan Parsons ) and Felicity Tree ( who married Sir Geoffrey Cory-Wright, third baronet ) and poet Iris Tree ( who married Curtis Moffat, becoming Countess Ledebur ).

Irus ( also Iros ; Ἶρος ) was a nickname given to Arnaeus ( Ἀρναῖος ) the beggar, due to his willingness to run messages for the suitors ( see also Iris, the divine rainbow messenger ).

She received several notable film awards for her role as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown ( 1997 ), and has since been acclaimed for her work in such films as Shakespeare in Love ( 1998 ), Chocolat ( 2000 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Mrs Henderson Presents ( 2005 ) and Notes on a Scandal ( 2006 ), and the television production The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( 2001 ).

According to the Dionysiaca of Nonnos, Iris ' brother is Hydaspes ( book XXVI, lines 355-365 ).

Iris had numerous poetic titles and epithets, including Chrysopteron ( Golden Winged ), Podas ôkea ( swift footed ) or Podênemos ôkea ( wind-swift footed ), and Thaumantias or Thaumantos ( Daughter of Thaumas, Wondrous One ).

* Iris appears as a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest ( 1611 ).

: Other examples for sometimes well known plant names with zoological equivalents are Aotus ( Fabaceae and Mammalia ), Arenaria ( Caryophyllaeceae and Aves ), Betula ( Betulaceae and Hymenoptera ), Chloris ( Cactaceae and Aves ), Dugesia ( Asteraceae and Plathelminthes ), Erica ( Ericaceae and Araneae ), Hystrix ( Poaceae and Mammalia ), Iris ( Asparagales and Orthoptera ), Liparis ( Orchidaceae and Actinopterygii ), Phalaenopsis ( Asparagales and Aves ), Pinus ( Pinaceae and Mollusca ), Prunella ( Lamiaceae and Aves ), Ricinus ( Fabaceae and Acari ), Taxus ( Taxaceae and Mammalia ), Typha ( Typhaceae and Porifera ), Ulva ( Ulvophyceae and Lepidoptera ), Viola ( Violaceae and Lepidoptera ).

Exceptions include Papa Lazarou facing the Reverend Bernice in the Christmas Special ( both Reece Shearsmith ), Les McQueen buying a magazine from Pop's son ( both Mark Gatiss ), and Alvin Steele buying food from Iris at a supermarket checkout in Series 2 ( again, both Mark Gatiss ).

Wilton's film career includes roles in The French Lieutenant's Woman ( 1981 ), Cry Freedom ( 1987 ), Iris ( 2001 ), Calendar Girls ( 2003 ) and Shaun of the Dead ( 2004 ), Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice ( 2005 ), in Woody Allen's film Match Point ( 2005 ) and in The History Boys ( 2006 ).

The Great Ape House is separated into two enclosures, one houses six Orangutans ( two males named Kiko and Kyle, and four females named Lucy, Batang, Iris and Bonnie ), while the other houses six Western Lowland Gorillas ( three males named Kigali, Baraka and Kwame, and three females named Mandara, Kibibi and Kojo ).

Old peat workings and rhynes have a wetland community which includes Bulrush ( Typha latifolia ), Yellow Flag Iris ( pseudacorus ), Cyperus-like Sedge ( Carex pseudocyperus ) and Lesser Bur-reed ( Sparganium natans ).

In 1985, he divorced Iris Pressagh, his wife of sixteen years ( they had separated four years earlier after living together in Drymen ).

When Iris later left the show for personal reasons, it was renamed to De Noche con Sunshine ( At Night With Sunshine ).

He was in a relationship first with Iris Bates, with whom he has two children, daughter Heather ( born in 1985 ) and son Jack ( born in 1989 ).

He has a stepson, Finlay Munro ( born 20 September 1990 ), and three biological children with Frost: son Rafferty ( born 6 October 1996 ), daughter Iris ( born 25 October 2000 ), and son Rudy ( born 10 September 2002 ).

Iris resembles it and its sister ship Paralos as an errand-runner for the authorities ( 1204 ).

* Lydians: Formerly an imperial power, they and their neighbours the Phrygians are now such timid folk that even the rainbow goddess Iris could intimidate them ( line 1244 ).

* Homer: The great Bard – he is indirectly quoted describing Hera ( Iris ) as a timid dove ( line 575 ) and poets as servants of the Muses ( 910 ).