heather
heather is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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 E. cinerea).
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- alkali
- alluvial
- basin
- bush
- campagna
- campestral
- campestrian
- champaign
- common
- country
- desert
- face
- field
- flat
- green
- greensward
- haugh
- heath
- lawn
- lay
- lea
- level
- ley
- llano
- maidan
- mead
- meadow
- mesa
- moor
- moorland
- open
- pampas
- park
- pasturage
- plain
- plat
- plateau
- playa
- plot
- prairie
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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