spiry
/spahyuhr-ee/US // ˈspaɪər i //UK // (ˈspaɪərɪ) //
螺旋式,螺旋形的,螺旋形,螺旋状
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : having the form of a spire, slender shoot, or tapering pointed body; tapering up to a point like a spire.
- : abounding in spires or steeples.
Examples
But the group oi spires, without it, would not be rich enough to give a proper impression of Lausanne, as a spiry place.
Of such spiry or spire-shaped trees, the Firs or Spruces are characteristic and familiar examples.
The grass-plot was full of romantic light, and on its eastern margin was an etching of spiry spruce.
Beneath these spiry, crowding trees one has only "the twilight of the forest noon."
Their clumpy heads blend ill with the spiry tops of the juniors.
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