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Purple heather   /pˈərpəl hˈɛðər/   Listen
Purple heather

noun
1.
Semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States.  Synonyms: Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri.





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"Purple heather" Quotes from Famous Books



... shower of arrows from an unseen foe upon them. That, in short, their lives were in the power of the "merrie men," whose arrowheads and caps they could alone see peering from behind the tree trunks, and over the bank, amidst the purple heather. ...
— The House of Walderne - A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars • A. D. Crake
... because he wanted it, he could not complain because it went back to nowhere at all when he had done with it. So he sighed twice, and then walked straight ahead as before, up the beach and over a flat grassy plain, covered with yellow poppies and gorse bushes and purple heather. Nothing could have been easier than this; and Prince Perfection had not the slightest wish to turn to the right or the left, until he came suddenly upon a thick clump of gorse bushes which lay in the very middle of his path. He made two attempts ...
— All the Way to Fairyland - Fairy Stories • Evelyn Sharp


Words linked to "Purple heather" :   Phyllodoce breweri, Phyllodoce, genus Phyllodoce, heath, Brewer's mountain heather


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