Meaning

noun a pesticide in suspension or solution; intended for spraying

noun a quantity of small objects flying through the air

noun flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage

originFrom Middle Dutch sprāien, sprayen, spraeyen (“to spray, sprinkle, spread”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sprēwijaną (“to spray, sprinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per- (“to sow, scatter”). Cognate with Middle High German spræjen, spræwen (“to squirt, spray, dust, splash, straw”), Danish dialectal språe (“to open up, burst forth”), Swedish dialectal språ (“to sprout, shoot forth,…

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