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Sperate
- - Hoped for, or to be hoped for.
Spermic
- - Of or pertaining to sperm, or semen.
Spermo-
- - Combining forms from Gr. spe`rma, -atos, seed, sperm, semen (of plants or animals); as, spermatoblast, spermoblast.
Spiraea
- noun - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Rosaceae
- 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
- any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers
Spirals
- noun - a continuously accelerating change in the economy
- a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
- a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
- a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope"
- flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
- form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain"
- move in a spiral or zigzag course
- ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
- to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor"
Spirant
- adjective - A constant expressed as by a part of the breath against a part of the oral passage. Such as 'sh'.
- a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract
- of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then')
Spireas
- noun - 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
- any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers
Spireme
- unknown - The tangle of filaments that appears at the beginning of the prophase portion of meiosis or mitosis.
Spiring
- - Shooting up in a spire or spires.