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Spinney
- noun - a copse that shelters game
Spinose
- adjective - having spines
Spinous
- adjective - having spines; "the dorsal fin is spinous"
- shaped like a spine or thorn
SPINOUT
- unknown - Skid that throws a motor vehicle off the track
Spinoza
- noun - Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
Spiodea
- - An extensive division of marine Annelida, including those that are without oral tentacles or cirri, and have the gills, when present, mostly arranged along the sides of the body. They generally live in burrows or tubes.
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')