Meanings
gladiola1
Gladiola2
- A female given name.
Mrs. Will Shere and daughter Gladiola of Ludington are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bennett.
1903 September 18, “Arbela”, in The Saginaw Evening News, last edition, 23rd year, number 118, Saginaw, Mich., →OCLC, page 7, column 42 more examples
Gladiola Manning, 83, homemaker, widow of Clenzy Manning, died of heart failure Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Osceola.
1995 November 3, “[Mid-South Deaths] Arkansas”, in The Commercial Appeal, 156th year, number 307, Memphis, Tenn.: Scripps Howard, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A9, column 1Peggy was born January 16, 1934, to James Franklin Hines, Sr., and Gladiola Josephine Kimbrough Hines in Attala County, Mississippi.
2024 October 10, “Peggy Hines Sims”, in The Star-Herald, volume 158, number 41, Kosciusko, Miss., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A23
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany of numerous plants of the genus Gladiolus native chiefly to tropical and South Africa having sword-shaped leaves and one-sided spikes of brightly colored funnel-shaped flowers; widely cultivated
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gladiola. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gladiola
“gladiola.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gladiola. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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