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Meanings of heather in English

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 "heather mixture"
Examples for "heather mixture"
1
I shaved off the remnants of my moustache, and got inside an ancient suit of what I believe is called heather mixture.
The Thirty-Nine Steps
2
The Scotchman, clad in inch-thick heather mixture, was already discussing with all whom he could buttonhole the possibilities of a ship's concert.
The Nest Builder: A Novel
3
No remotest glimmer of doubt, or even of astonishment, showed itself in the steady glance of Tempest's " heather mixture" eyes.
The Vision of Desire
Usage of heather in English
1
Birds whirred from the heather and the cuckoo was in the wood.
Gilian The Dreamer: His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
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
6
In another moment, Geordie was lying gored and senseless on the heather.
Geordie's Tryst: A Tale of Scottish Life
7
The Titan-strewn rocks felt it likewise with all their heather and broom.
Two Summers in Guyenne: A Chronicle of the Wayside and Waterside
8
It was filled with the heather-stalks which she bound together for besoms.
The King of Ireland's Son
9
Under their feet the grass and heather were dusty with long drought.
Eyeless in Gaza
10
She is as good as any Crawford that ever trod the heather.
Scottish sketches
11
She sat down upon a clump of heather and began to cry.
The Shuttle
12
The ground, though covered with heather, had few trees to ornament it.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
13
She slid downward among the heather, her face propped on her hands.
The Case of Richard Meynell
14
It is barren heath where grows nothing but heather, mosses, and lichens.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
15
Already this morning flowers had arrived for her, heather and American Beauties.
The Tin Soldier
16
Where Gibbie was, the mountain-root was chiefly of rock, interspersed with heather.
Sir Gibbie
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Heather through the time
Heather across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common