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HEATHER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color
Synonyms:
heather; heather mixture
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heather" is a kind of...):
color; coloring; colour; colouring (a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
Synonyms:
broom; Calluna vulgaris; heather; ling; Scots heather
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("heather" is a kind of...):
heath (a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers)
Holonyms ("heather" is a member of...):
Calluna; genus Calluna (one species)
Context examples:
“Wrong, quotha?” cried the other, jumping out of the heather.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He ran once, but the long gown clogged him so that he slowed down into a shambling walk, and finally plumped into the heather once more.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To the right of this stood, and stands to this day, an ancient barrow, or burying mound, covered deeply in a bristle of heather and bracken.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was the more surprised therefore when, on coming round a turn in the path, he perceived a man clad in the familiar garb of the order, and seated in a clump of heather by the roadside.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the very midst of the scuffle, however, whilst Alleyne braced himself to feel the cold blade between his shoulders, there came a sudden scurry of hoofs, and the black man yelled with terror and ran for his life through the heather.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even as he gazed, however, the two came writhing out from among the heather, and came down towards him with such a guilty, slinking carriage, that the clerk felt that there was no good in them, and hastened onwards upon his way.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Leaving the thumbless archer and his brood, the wayfarers struck through the scattered huts of Emery Down, and out on to the broad rolling heath covered deep in ferns and in heather, where droves of the half-wild black forest pigs were rooting about amongst the hillocks.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When he passed Penerley, where were three cottages and a barn, he reached the edge of the tree country, and found the great barren heath of Blackdown stretching in front of him, all pink with heather and bronzed with the fading ferns.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
