spirea
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That spirea is a specially good variety of spirea because it does well almost anywhere, and also it is very showy and the foliage is handsome all summer long.
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- noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Spiraea of the rose family, having clusters of small white or pink flowers and including the bridal wreath, hardhack, and meadowsweet.
- noun See astilbe.
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That spirea is a specially good variety of spirea because it does well almost anywhere, and also it is very showy and the foliage is handsome all summer long.
— The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. - A bank of spirea bloomed ghostly white beyond it. — War for the Oaks
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- Latin spīraea, meadowsweet, from Greek speiraia, privet, from speira, coil.
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