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Spired vs Spirea - What's the difference?

spired | spirea |

As an adjective spired

is having a spire.

As a noun spirea is

any of many flowering shrubs, of the genus spiraea , that have clusters of white or pink flowers.

spired

English

Adjective

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  • having a spire
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Edwin Bjorkman, title=The Soul of a Child, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer. }}

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    spirea

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of many flowering shrubs, of the genus Spiraea , that have clusters of white or pink flowers
  • The Astilbe .
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