I can launch you into the air from a coiled mattress, flow pure and clean from a rocky hillside, and arrive right after winter bringing Easter blossoms with me. What single five-letter word am I?
Spring
The solution rests on three separate definitions of the homonym 'spring.' It names a mechanical coiled wire that bounces, a natural groundwater source emerging from the earth, and the temperate season during which Easter takes place.
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