spires

noun

1
The stalk or stem of a plant.
2
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
3
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
4
A sharp or tapering point.
5
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
“The spire of the church rose high above the town.”
6
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
7
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

1
(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
2
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
3
To furnish with a spire.

1
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
2
A spiral.
3
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

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