spires

We have found lemma(root) word of spires : spire.

Definitions


[ˈspʌɪə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower


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Origin:
Old English spīr ‘tall slender stem of a plant’; related to German Spier ‘tip of a blade of grass’


[ˈspʌɪə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the upper tapering part of the spiral shell of a gastropod mollusc, comprising all but the whorl containing the body


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Origin:
mid 16th century (in the general sense ‘a spiral’): from French, or via Latin from Greek speira ‘a coil’




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