Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low-growing Eurasian shrub (Calluna vulgaris) in the heath family, growing in dense masses and having small evergreen leaves and clusters of small, bell-shaped pinkish-purple flowers.
- noun A grayish purple to purplish red.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Heath: especially applied to Calluna vulgaris, the common heather.
- noun The crowberry, Empetrum nigrum.
- noun A tweed or similar fabric, usually 56 inches wide, woven of heather-wool, and presenting a color-effect like that of heather. Also called
heather mixture . - noun Menziesia pilosa. See
Menziesia .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. Heath.
- noun (Bot.) one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (
Erica Tetralix , andErica cinerea ).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
- noun botany The
Ericaceae family. - noun botany Various species of the genus
Erica . - noun botany Various species of the genus
Cassiope . - noun A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
- adjective Of a purple colour with a tint with pink and blue.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
- noun interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The 'county set' have tailored things made out of fine suiting-cloth in heather shades and stripes.
Guns Kill People ( Shock News) Newmania 2007
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If heather is truly a professor of history – then she probably teaches at BOB JONES UNIVERSITY.
Think Progress » Frist and Hastert Let Vaccine Industry Write Its Own Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway 2006
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We also discovered during lunch that heather is very comfortable to sit on.
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We also discovered during lunch that heather is very comfortable to sit on.
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The only place on the heath where the heather is not all-powerful is a low, stony ridge which crosses it.
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Sedum ‘Vera Jameson’ lines this area, referred to as the heather bed for it once was home to over twenty heaths and heathers.
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Calluna, the flowering shrub also known as heather, seems to have been appreciated not so much for its beauty as its handiness as a broom.
From the Teeth of the Lion to the Dandelion Stephen Messenger 2009
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It is called heather honey with a very distinctive flavour.
Raspberry and Blackberry Cupcakes Crazy Cupcakes 2008
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I shaved off the remnants of my moustache, and got inside an ancient suit of what I believe is called heather mixture.
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In the third-story front room of the house of the shrine dwelt a Scotch artist named MacGuilp, who was a grand amateur of these pipes, and who declared that no sound in the world was so sweet to his ear as the bagpipes: they recalled the heather, haggis, and the Lothians, and the mountain dew, ye ken, and all those sorts of things.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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