Irides

The eyes are oblique, the pupils round, and the 'irides' light-brown. ❋ William Youatt (1811)

My favourite plurals are irides - for iris - and clitorides, similarly formed lexically if not anatomically. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Her whole appearance now reminded me of that first meeting with her when the serpent bit me; the soft red of her irides shone like fire, her delicate skin seemed to glow with an intense rose colour, and her frame trembled with her agitation, so that her loose cloud of hair was in motion as if blown through by the wind. ❋ Unknown (2004)

His lids came down on the lower rims of his irides. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It flexed irides-cently in her hands but did not protest. ❋ Anthony, Piers, 1934- (1994)

Horny mouthparts clacked rhythmically while irides-cent blobs of color pulsed and contracted within the smooth epidermis, chromatic indicators of their progeni'tor's emotional state. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1992)

I also got to-day a beautiful male Lophophorus, the plumage of which surpasses description; it is a heavy bird, with brown irides, and a brownish-chesnut tail; it came from Daiwag. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

Head not banded, fins tawny, with oblong black spots, eyes prominent, irides reddish-orange: this is a very abundant species. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

At the corner of the mouth the bare, thick, fleshy, prominent skin, is of a pinky flesh colour, and the irides are dark brown. ❋ Various (N/A)

Eyes clear; irides brown; pupils round and regular, moderately dilated, reacted readily to all tests; eye movements well performed in all directions; no nystagmus nor strabismus. ❋ Bernard Glueck (N/A)

The number and the situation of the pigment cells differ in different irides. ❋ Unknown (1918)

This layer is continuous with the endothelium covering the posterior elastic lamina of the cornea, and in individuals with dark-colored irides the cells contain pigment granules. ❋ Unknown (1918)

His own, in which amusement was blended with wonder, noted that they were very handsome eyes and rather curiously colourful, the delicate sepia shade of the pupils being lightened by a faint sheen of gold in the irides; they were, furthermore, large and set well apart. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

The globes of two of them (a boy and a girl) were smaller than natural, and in the boy in addition were flattened by the action of the recti muscles and were soft; the sclera were very vascular and the cornea, conical, the irides dull, thin, and tremulous; the pupils were not in the axis of vision, but were to the nasal side. ❋ Unknown (1896)

The other boy in the family had a total absence of irides, but he could see fairly well with the left eye. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Burnett, Demaux, Lawson, Morison, Reuling, Samelson, and others also report congenital deficiency of the irides in both eyes. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Total absence of both irides has been seen in a man of eighteen. ❋ Unknown (1896)

"[i love you], Iride!" ❋ Deddee (2021)