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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SPIRAEA

Spi *ræ "a, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Bot. )

 

Defn: A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

spiraea

spi rae a ▶noun variant spelling of spirea.

 

Oxford Dictionary

spiraea

spiraea |spʌɪˈriːə |(chiefly US also spirea ) ▶noun a shrub of the rose family, with clusters of small white or pink flowers. Found throughout the northern hemisphere, it is widely cultivated as a garden ornamental. ●Genus Spiraea, family Rosaceae. ORIGIN modern Latin, from Greek speiraia, from speira ‘a coil ’.