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Meanings of Scots heather in anglès

Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.

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        Examples for "heather"
        Examples for "heather"
        1
        Birds whirred from the heather and the cuckoo was in the wood.
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        2
        They sat down on the side of the moor in the heather.
        Mary Olivier: a Life
        3
        The heather showed burning red against the deep blue of the sky.
        Invisible Links
        4
        The nestlings went flapping and stumbling through the roots of the heather.
        Mary Olivier: a Life
        5
        Firstly, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, to beat good Irish heather honey.
        The Irish Times
        1
        It was set to reform politics and the economy, a new broom.
        The Irish Times
        2
        The gorse and the broom were a fine accent in the landscape.
        Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
        3
        The manner of holding the broom is plainly shown in the sketch.
        The Boy Mechanic, Volume 1: 700 Things for Boys to Do
        4
        The new broom has a rare chance to suggest a graceful exit.
        Reuters
        5
        Luckily for him, he saw the broom coming down and leaped clear.
        Witch Week
        1
        Bing-a-ling-a-ling… The bell has rung; it is a new dawn in Jamaica.
        Jamaica Observer
        2
        For the last ten years I have been at the ling fishing.
        Second Shetland Truck System Report
        3
        There is no ling fishing carried on close to where I live.
        Second Shetland Truck System Report
        4
        Next came a ling- adeepwater fish at any rate this time.
        The Great Hunger
        5
        As with cod, ling was preserved by salting and drying the fillets.
        The Irish Times
        1
        In Hooker's lecture he gives St. Dabeoc's Heath and Calluna vulgaris as the most striking of the few boreal plants in the Azores.
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