Word: spiraea
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...name salicylic acid is derived from the Latin salix, willow, though the same substance occurs in many plants, including spiraea, from which the word aspirin is derived...
Cold, drizzling rain dashed the white blooms of the spiraea bushes outside the yellow clapboard cottage. Inside, behind drawn shades, 94-year-old Martha Truman dozed fitfully. In the next room, the President of the U.S. sat working at the Mission oak library table. It was just a week since Harry Truman got the sudden telephone call which brought him hurrying to his mother's side...
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