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plural gladioli or gladioluses
(anatomy) The center part of the sternum. examples
Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and showy flowers on spikes; gladiola. quotations examples
Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict