MEANING
A low evergreen shrub with small leaves and clusters of tiny pinkish, purple, or white flowers.
Use it for
Open moors, flowering uplands, and low resilient vegetation.Color broad ground with a specific low-growing plant.
Words that belong together
- purple heather
- heather moor
- heather-covered slope
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Heather spread purple across the slope.
Bees worked the heather beside the footpath.
In winter, the heather remained dark beneath the snow.
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Word forms
- Base
- heather
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Also used collectively for related heath plants; associated with open acidic uplands. Usually a mass or collective noun; heathers for distinct kinds or individual plants.
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