Ixia

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Ixia
       n : a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae [syn: {genus
           Ixia}]