Iris

Iris can mean:

• The sphincter around the pupil of the eye, see iris (anatomy)
• The equivalent device in a camera, see iris (camera)
• The messenger of the gods in Greek mythology, see Iris (mythology)
• The genus Iris of flowering plants, and their flowers: see iris (plant)
• The Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship (IRIS), now defunct, which developed the Intermedia hypertext publishing system at Brown University.
• A movie by Richard Eyre, about Iris Murdoch, see Iris (2001)
• A Dutch comic magazine, see Iris magazine
• A female first name
• A Romanian heavy-metal/hard-rock band IRIS
• The asteroid 7 Iris
• Irises (painting), a painting by Vincent Van Gogh