heather : Idioms & Phrases

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beach heather

  • noun small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
    poverty grass; Hudsonia tomentosa.
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bell heather

  • noun dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers
    Erica tetralix; cross-leaved heath.
  • noun common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
    fine-leaved heath; bell heather; Erica cinerea.
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brewer's mountain heather

  • noun semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States
    Brewer's mountain heather; Phyllodoce breweri.
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false heather

  • noun North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
    Hudsonia ericoides; false heather.
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golden heather

  • noun North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
    Hudsonia ericoides; false heather.
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Heather bell

  • noun common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
    fine-leaved heath; bell heather; Erica cinerea.
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  • (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. cinerea).
Webster 1913

heather mixture

  • noun interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color
    heather.
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purple heather

  • noun semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States
    Brewer's mountain heather; Phyllodoce breweri.
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scots heather

  • noun common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
    ling; broom; heather; Calluna vulgaris.
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white heather

  • noun heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers
    Cassiope mertensiana.
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