Heath·er n. Heath. [Scot.]
Gorse and grass
And heather, where his footsteps pass,
The brighter seem. --Longfellow.
Heather bell Bot., one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and Erica cinerea).
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Erica cinerea
n : common low European shrub with purple-red flowers [syn: bell
heather, heather bell, fine-leaved heath]