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Definition: Spirea |
SpireaNoun1. A Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming. 2. Any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: SpireaSynonym: spiraea (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Spirea |
| English words defined with "spirea": genus Astilbe. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Spirea" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (Spiraea). |
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| "Spirea after the rains" by Peter E. Leonard Commentary: "Spirea buds after the rain <br> <br>Free to use for any purpose but I would appreciate credit for the photo. <br> <br>©2003 Peter E. Leonard." |
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| Language | Translations for "spirea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | angervo (meadowsweet). (various references) | |
French | puceron spiraecole (spirea aphid), puceron de la spirée (spirea aphid). (various references) | |
German | Spierstrauchblattlaus (green citrus aphid, spirea aphid). (various references) | |
Greek | aphis spiraecola (green citrus aphid, spirea aphid), aphis citricola (green citrus aphid, spirea aphid). (various references) | |
Hungarian | díszcserje (starry false spirea). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 雪柳 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆきやなぎ. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ireaspay.(various references) | |
Russian | спирея. (various references) | |
Spanish | espirea (Spiraea). (various references) | |
Swedish | svarthuvad spireabladlus (green citrus aphid, spirea aphid). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Aphis citricola, Aphis spiraecola. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "spirea": spireas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aspire, paries, praise. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: apers, apres, arise, asper, pairs, paise, pares, paris, parse, pears, peris, piers, prase, presa, pries, prise, raise, rapes, reaps, ripes, sepia, serai, spare, spear, speir, spier, spire. | |
-2 letters: airs, aper, apes, apse, ares, arse, ears, eras, ires, pair, pare, pars, pase, pear, peas, peri, pias, pier, pies, rape, raps, rase, rasp, reap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: aperies, apprise, aspired, aspirer, aspires, despair, diapers, harpies, impresa, paniers, paresis, parises, parries, parties, parvise, pastier, paviser, piaster, piastre, pirates, praised, praiser, praises, rapiers, rapines, raspier, repairs, sappier, scrapie, sharpie, soapier, spacier, spiraea, spireas, traipse, upraise, waspier. | |
+2 letters: airscape, airspace, airspeed, aphorise, apiaries, appliers, appraise, apprised, appriser, apprises, apprizes, asperity, aspheric, aspirate, aspirers, calipers, caprices, crappies, crispate, despairs, diaspore, dispread, earlship, epicarps, epigrams, espalier, firepans, garpikes, grapiest, harelips, heparins, impalers, impearls, impresas, japeries, lempiras, meropias, misparse, naperies, painters, panfries, panniers, pantries, paradise, parasite, parchesi, parecism, pareiras, paretics, parietes, parishes, parities, parodies, parslied, partiers, parvises, pastries, pavisers, pelorias, peracids, periapts, perillas, perisarc, pertains, pharisee, piaffers, piasters, piastres, picrates, pilaster, pinaster, piracies, plaister, plaiters, plashier, polarise, practise, prairies, praisers, pralines, praxises, presidia, prevails, primages, primates, pristane, privates, pyrexias, rampikes, ranpikes, raphides, rapidest, raspiest, repaints, replicas, reprisal, samphire, sapphire, sapremia, sapremic, scrapies, septaria, seraphic, seraphim, seraphin, sharpies, slipware, snappier, sparerib, sparkier, sparlike, sparrier, spearing, spiracle, spiraeas, spiraled, spirulae, sprained, swampier, traipsed, traipses, triphase, upraised, upraiser, upraises, vampires, vaporise, vespiary, warpwise, wiretaps. | |
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