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Heather

Heather
heath. ”Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem.
(Science: botany) ” (Longfellow) heather bell, one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (erica Tetralix, and E. Cinerea).
See: heath.


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