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Meanings of heather in anglès
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere.
Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color.
Synonyms
Examples for "broom"
Examples for "broom"
1
It was set to reform politics and the economy, a new broom.
2
The gorse and the broom were a fine accent in the landscape.
3
The manner of holding the broom is plainly shown in the sketch.
4
The new broom has a rare chance to suggest a graceful exit.
5
Luckily for him, he saw the broom coming down and leaped clear.
1
Bing-a-ling-a-ling… The bell has rung; it is a new dawn in Jamaica.
2
For the last ten years I have been at the ling fishing.
3
There is no ling fishing carried on close to where I live.
4
Next came a ling- adeepwater fish at any rate this time.
5
As with cod, ling was preserved by salting and drying the fillets.
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.
Usage of heather in anglès
1
Birds whirred from the heather and the cuckoo was in the wood.
2
They sat down on the side of the moor in the heather.
3
The heather showed burning red against the deep blue of the sky.
4
The nestlings went flapping and stumbling through the roots of the heather.
5
Firstly, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, to beat good Irish heather honey.
6
In another moment, Geordie was lying gored and senseless on the heather.
7
The Titan-strewn rocks felt it likewise with all their heather and broom.
8
It was filled with the heather-stalks which she bound together for besoms.
9
Under their feet the grass and heather were dusty with long drought.
10
She is as good as any Crawford that ever trod the heather.
11
She sat down upon a clump of heather and began to cry.
12
The ground, though covered with heather, had few trees to ornament it.
13
She slid downward among the heather, her face propped on her hands.
14
It is barren heath where grows nothing but heather, mosses, and lichens.
15
Already this morning flowers had arrived for her, heather and American Beauties.
16
Where Gibbie was, the mountain-root was chiefly of rock, interspersed with heather.
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Heather through the time
Heather across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common