spirea
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ə noun
any of various plants or shrubs belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, having clusters of small, white or pink flowers, certain species of which are cultivated as ornamentals.
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spiraea or esp (US) spirea (spaɪˈrɪə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| meadowsweet See also hardhack any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea, having sprays of small white or pink flowers | |
| [C17: via Latin from Greek speiraia, from speira | |
| spirea or esp (US) spirea | |
| —n | |
| [C17: via Latin from Greek speiraia, from speira | |
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Spirea
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
The adults are usually out flying about a week or so after spirea begins to bloom.
Lush areas of willow, spirea, silk dogwood and alder shrubs can be found in the river corridor's floodplain.
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