gladiola

noun

1. (US)Gladiolus.

name

1. A female given name.

   “Mrs. Will Shere and daughter Gladiola of Ludington are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bennett.”

   “Gladiola Manning, 83, homemaker, widow of Clenzy Manning, died of heart failure Wednesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Osceola.”

   “Peggy was born January 16, 1934, to James Franklin Hines, Sr., and Gladiola Josephine Kimbrough Hines in Attala County, Mississippi.”