Meaning | A low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers. |
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Member of | Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family | heathers |
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Narrower | Connemara heath, St. Dabeoc's heath, Daboecia cantabrica | Low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple |
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erica, true heath | Any plant of the genus Erica |
heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris | common Old World heath represented by many varieties |
mountain heath, Phyllodoce caerulea, Bryanthus taxifolius | small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers |
purple heather, Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri | semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States |
spike heath, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia | small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers |
white heather, Cassiope mertensiana | heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers |
Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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Spanish | brezo |
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Adjectives | heathlike | resembling heath |
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