ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Irisless

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Irisless is an adjective meaning (of eyes) Without irises.

Meaning

(of eyes) Without irises.

Example Sentences

Whether the granite menagerie was Arbo’s idea or the sculptor’s vision is not clear. The animals—a baby rhino, a lion, a hyena, on cocked forelegs, with drooping necks, irisless eyes—watch a horizon that does not exist for the buildings, stoop to drink from an oasis that does not exist for the concrete.

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