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Neillia or Spiraea opulifolia
Nine-bark Nine"-bark`, n. (Bot.) A white-flowered rosaceous shrub (Neillia, or Spir[ae]a, opulifolia), common in the Northern United States. The bark separates into many thin layers, whence the name.
Spiraea
Spiraea Spi*r[ae]"a, n. [L., fr. Gr. ???, fr. ??? a coil.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.
Spiraea
Spiraeic Spi*r[ae]"ic, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (Spir[ae]a); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.
Spiraea
May May, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. ?), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. Italian may (Bot.), a shrubby species of Spir[ae]a (S. hypericifolia) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. May apple (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant (Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. May beetle, May bug (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to Melolontha, and allied genera. Called also June beetle. May Day, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. May dew, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. May flower (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See Mayflower, in the vocabulary. May fly (Zo["o]l.), any species of Ephemera, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. May game, any May-day sport. May lady, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. May lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis). May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary. May queen, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. May thorn, the hawthorn.
Spiraea tomentosa
Steeple Stee"ple, n. [OE. stepel, AS. st[=e]pel, st?pel; akin to E. steep, a.] (Arch.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. ``A weathercock on a steeple.' --Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. Steeple bush (Bot.), a low shrub (Spir[ae]a tomentosa) having dense panicles of minute rose-colored flowers; hardhack. Steeple chase, a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc. Steeple chaser, one who rides in a steeple chase; also, a horse trained to run in a steeple chase. Steeple engine, a vertical back-acting steam engine having the cylinder beneath the crosshead. Steeple house, a church. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
Spiraea tomentosa
Hardhack Hard"hack`, n. (Bot.) A very astringent shrub (Spir[ae]a tomentosa), common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.
Spiraeic
Spiraeic Spi*r[ae]"ic, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the meadowsweet (Spir[ae]a); formerly, designating an acid which is now called salicylic acid.

Meaning of Spirae from wikipedia

- Basilica of the ****umption and St Stephen, in Latin: Domus sanctae Mariae Spirae (German: Dom zu Unserer lieben Frau in Speyer) in Speyer, Germany, is the...
- Title page of the Description of Sarmatian Europe, Spiræ 1581 (in Latin)...
- Eustathium Vignon, 1578. Ἐναντιόφαν. seu Legum conciliatarum centuriae III, Spirae: typis Bernardi Albini, 1586. De rebus creditis, seu De obligationibus qua...
- (decollatis), norm, vii, subplanatis, suturis alte insculptis ; superficie spirae tota valide tuberculosa, seriebus tribus, alteris postea intercalantibus;...
- Guérin-Meneville, 1842 (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) as biological controller of Aphis spirae Patch, 1914 (Hemiptera: Aphididae) en conments of laboratory" [Biology,...
- Nat. XXVI. 42) when speaking of the lizard and frog carved on the bases (spirae) of the columns of the temples of Jupiter and Juno in the Portico of Octavius;...
- item Francisci Porti ... in eosdem libros perpetui latini commentarii, Spirae. P. Tavonatti, "Il contributo di Francesco Porto alla filologia eschilea"...
- 1907) i c g Parallelodiplosis sarae Gagne, 1972 i c g Parallelodiplosis spirae (Felt, 1909) i c g Parallelodiplosis subtruncata (Felt, 1907) i c g b Parallelodiplosis...
- — China (Hainan) Pinelema spinafemora (Lin & Li, 2010) — China Pinelema spirae (Lin & Li, 2010) — China Pinelema spirulata Zhao & Li, 2018 — Vietnam Pinelema...
- still more than 5,000 unsettled court cases which lead to the saying "Lites Spirae spirant, non exspirant". In these decades, the court was mainly concerned...