erica : Idioms & Phrases
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erica arborea
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noun evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
tree heath; briar; brier.
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erica carnea
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noun dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers
winter heath; spring heath.
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erica cinerea
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noun common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
heather bell; fine-leaved heath; bell heather.
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erica jong
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noun United States writer (born in 1942)
Jong.
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erica lusitanica
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noun erect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England
Portuguese heath; Spanish heath.
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erica perspicua
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noun South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
Prince-of-Wales'-heath; Prince of Wales heath.
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erica tetralix
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noun dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers
bell heather; cross-leaved heath.
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erica vagans
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noun bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
Cornish heath.
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genus erica
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noun large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths