Heathery
61heathiest — adj. heathery, covered with heath (type of evergreen shrub) …
62heathy — adj. heathery, covered with heath (type of evergreen shrub) …
63heather — noun a purple flowered heath typical of moorland and heathland. [Calluna vulgaris.] ↘informal any plant of this family (Ericaceae); a heath. Derivatives heathery adjective Origin OE hadre, hedre, of unknown origin …
64heath — n. 1. Heather, ling (Calluna vulgaris). 2. Field covered with heather, heathery field. 3. Shrubby field or plain …
65heathy — a. Heathery …
66Carbery, Ethna (Anna Macmanus) — (1866 1902) Ethna Carbery is the pen name of the Belfast poet Anna MacManus, the wife of the novelist Séamus MacManus. She began publishing in her teens, and her writings were popular with the early Sinn Féin movement. She contributed to most… …
67heather — ► NOUN ▪ a purple flowered heath typical of moors and heaths. DERIVATIVES heathery adjective. ORIGIN Old English …
68heather — [heth′ər] n. [altered (after HEATH) < ME (northern & Scot) haddyr, prob. < OE * hædre, parallel with clofre, clover, mædre, madder] any of various low growing plants of the heath family; esp., a plant (Calluna vulgaris) common in the… …
69heather — n. 1 an evergreen shrub, Calluna vulgaris, with purple bell shaped flowers. 2 any of various shrubs of the genus Erica or Daboecia, growing esp. on moors and heaths. Phrases and idioms: heather mixture 1 a fabric of mixed hues supposed to… …
70peat hag — noun : ground from which peat has been cut * * * peat hag, broken ground from which peats have been dug: »As the heathery hill rose, it broke into peat hags (London Times) …
