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heath⋅er

  [heth-er]
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–noun
1. any of various heaths, esp. Calluna vulgaris, of England and Scotland, having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
–adjective
2. (of a yarn or fabric color) subtly flecked or mottled: all-cotton turtlenecks in your choice of five solid colors plus heather gray and heather green.
Origin:
1300–50; sp. var. of hether, earlier hedder, hadder, hather, ME hathir; akin to heath

Related forms:
heathered, adjective

Heath⋅er

  [heth-er]
–noun
a female given name.
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heath   (hēth)   
n.  
  1. Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and related genera, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers. Also called heather.
  2. An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor.

[Middle English, uncultivated land, from Old English hǣth; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.]
heath·er   (hěth'ər)   
n.  
  1. A low-growing Eurasian shrub (Calluna vulgaris) growing in dense masses and having small evergreen leaves and clusters of small, bell-shaped pinkish-purple flowers. Also called ling2.
  2. See heath.
  3. A grayish purple to purplish red.

[Alteration (influenced by heath) of Middle English hather, probably from Old English *hǣddre.]
heath'er adj.
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Heather

Heath"er\ (?; 277. This is the only pronunciation in Scotland), n. [See Heath.] 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).
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Language Translation for : heather
Spanish: brezo,
German: das Heidekraut,
Japanese: ヒース
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heather 
1335, hathir, from O.E. *hæddre, Scot. or northern England dial. name for Calluna vulgaris, probably altered by heath, but exact connection to that word uncertain.
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