Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Ixia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ixia \Ix"i*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? birdlime. So called because of
the viscid nature of some of the species.] (Bot.)
A South African bulbous plant of the Iris family, remarkable
for the brilliancy of its flowers.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Ixia
n : a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae [syn: {Ixia},
{genus Ixia}]
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