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Look up: Heather

  1. Heather
    (Calluna) These small, hardy, evergreen shrubs are found wild in many parts of Europe and some in places of North America. They have little, opposite, four-ranked leaves and spikes of tiny flowers in many different shades. These plants are commonly known as Heather. C. vulgaris, the common Heather, ...
    Found on http://www.botany.com/calluna.html

  2. Heather
    Reminiscent of the aroma of heather.
    Found on http://www.mcgees.org/popupmaltglossary.

  3. heather
    [n] - common Old World heath represented by many varieties
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. Heather
    Heath'er (hĕ&thlig;'ẽr; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland) noun [ See Heath .] Heath. [ Scot.] « Gorse and grass And heather , where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem.» Longfellow. He...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/24

  5. heather
    Heath. 'Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. ... <botany> ' (Longfellow) Heather bell, one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and E. Cinerea). ... See: Heath. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. Heather
    • (n.) Heath.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  7. heather
    (species Calluna vulgaris), low evergreen shrub of the heath family (Ericaceae), widespread in western Europe and Asia, North America, and Greenland. ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/29

  8. Heather
    Heather is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Flowering Shrub` Where is it used? The name Heather is mainly used In English. Heather appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 409. The name reached the top-100 11 times. 1980 was a `top year` for the name Heather. (Based on 128 year...
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Hea

  9. Heather
    Heather is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `heather ` Where is it used? The name Heather is mainly used In English. Heather appears In 2007`s top-1000 name list at rank 409. The name reached the top-100 11 times. 1980 was a `top year` for the name Heather. (Based on 128 years of name history) In that year it ranked #6.
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Hea

  10. Heather
    Heather (Calunua) is a low growing evergreen shrub that is common on sandy and acid soil. Heather has tiny, arrow-head shaped leaves pressed against and clasping the stem. Narrow spikes of flowers are borne which are often crowded to form large branched inflorescences. The flowers have four pinkish-...
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  11. Heather
    Heather is a cultivated variety of potato.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  12. heather
    heather: see heath, in botany.
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A09142

  13. heather
    Low-growing evergreen shrub of the heath family, common on sandy or acid soil. The common heather (Calluna vulgaris) is a carpet-forming shrub, growing up to 60 cm/24 in high and bearing pale pink-purple flowers. It is found over much of Europe and has been introduc...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  14. Heather
    When growing in crevices this plant can provide useful handholds for ascending or descending wet rock.
    Found on http://www.perratt.me.uk/fun/fellrun.htm

  15. Heather
    This is an all-inclusive golf terminology for tall and thin grasses skirting the primary rough.
    Found on http://www.buzzle.com/articles/golf-term

  16. Heather
    (song) "`Heather`" is a short (1:21) song that appears on the Beatles bootleg No. 3 Abbey Road N.W., but was actually recorded in January, 1969 by Paul McCartney (vocal and acoustic guitar) with Donovan (acoustic guitar and chorus) and Mary Hopkin (chorus) during the sessions...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather



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