English > true heath: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any plant of the genus Erica. |
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| Synonym | erica |
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| Member of | genus Erica | large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees |
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| Narrower | Cornish heath, Erica vagans | bushy shrub having pink to white flowers |
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| Prince-of-Wales'-heath, Prince of Wales heath, Erica perspicua | South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers |
| Spanish heath, Portuguese heath, Erica lusitanica | Erect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers |
| bell heather, heather bell, fine-leaved heath, Erica cinerea | Common low European shrub with purple-red flowers |
| cross-leaved heath, bell heather, Erica tetralix | Dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers |
| tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea | evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes |
| winter heath, spring heath, Erica carnea | Dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers |
| Broader | heath | A low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae |
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| Spanish | erica |
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| Catalan | bruc, erica, Erica |
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