Word Meanings - SPIRAEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A genus of shrubs or perennial herbs including the meadowsweet and the hardhack.

HARDHACK
A very astringent shrub , common in pastures. The Potentilla fruticosa in also called by this name.
INCLUDED
Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
GENUS
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
PERENNIALLY
In a perennial manner.
INCLUDE
1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
INCLUDIBLE
Capable of being included.
MEADOWSWEET; MEADOWWORT
The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
PERENNIAL
Continuing more than two years; as, a perennial steam, or root, or plant. Syn. -- Perpetual; unceasing; never failing; enduring; continual; permanent; uninterrupted. (more info) 1. ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains. 2.
SUBGENUS
A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.