spires
noun
Meaning
- The stalk or stem of a plant.
- A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
- Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
- A sharp or tapering point.
- A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
- The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- (of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
- To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
- To furnish with a spire.
- To breathe.
- One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
- A spiral.
- The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
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