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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. 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.