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  2. Iris pseudacorus - Wikipedia

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    Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag, yellow iris, or water flag, is a species of flowering plant in the family Iridaceae. It is native to Europe, western Asia and northwest Africa. Its specific epithet pseudacorus means "false acorus", referring to the similarity of its leaves to those of Acorus calamus (sweet flag), as they have a prominently ...

  3. Iris (plant) - Wikipedia

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    Flowering yellow iris (Iris pseudacorus) at a treatment pond. In water purification, yellow iris (I. pseudacorus) is often used. The roots are usually planted in a substrate (e.g. lava-stone) in a reedbed-setup. The roots then improve water quality by consuming nutrient pollutants, such as from agricultural runoff. This highly aggressive grower ...

  4. List of characters in mythology novels by Rick Riordan

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    Iris/Arcus – The goddess of rainbows, who administers a network of rainbows used by demigods and Olympians to communicate remotely something that is known as Iris Messaging. It's revealed that she doesn't actually handle much of the Iris Messaging system personally, instead delegating it to her cloud nymph assistant Fleecy.

  5. Iris florentina - Wikipedia

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    Iris florentina is considered one of the irises (with Iris pseudacorus) that inspired the fleur-de-lys (or fleur-de-luce) of heraldry, [13] [18] [12] which was the symbol of the city of Florence for centuries, [18] [5] and is on the coat of arms of the city.

  6. Flag iris - Wikipedia

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    Flag iris typically refers to several species of iris plant: Iris pseudacorus, the yellow flag iris; Iris versicolor, the larger blue flag iris; Iris prismatica, ...

  7. Iris ser. Laevigatae - Wikipedia

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    Iris ser. Laevigatae is a series of the genus Iris, in Iris subg. Limniris. The series was first classified by Diels in 'Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien' (Edited by H. G. A. Engler and K. Prantl) in 1930. It was further expanded by Lawrence in Gentes Herb (written in Dutch) in 1953. [1] [2] [3] [4]

  8. Avatar (computing) - Wikipedia

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    An avatar in the virtual world Second Life A Twitter post, with the user's profile picture In computing , an avatar is a graphical representation of a user , the user's character , or persona . Avatars can be two-dimensional icons in Internet forums and other online communities, where they are also known as profile pictures , userpics , or ...

  9. Krew - Wikipedia

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    Before making YouTube content, the Krew helped their parents run a Vietnamese restaurant in Edmonton during their adolescence. [ 16 ] [ 9 ] Apart from working for their parents, Rainbow worked as a cytotechnologist and Gold worked as an barista at Starbucks with an additional job as an accounting clerk to her college that she studied. [ 17 ]