Heather Synonyms

hĕthər
Common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ling
  2. Scots heather
  3. broom
  4. Calluna vulgaris
Interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. heather-mixture

Words Related to Heather

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. heath
  2. hazel
  3. lesley
  4. carolyn
  5. lorna
  6. bryony
  7. alison
  8. maureen
  9. carole
  10. isobel
  11. jenny
  12. pam
  13. linda
  14. sally
  15. jill
  16. rosemary

Heather Sentence Examples

  • The soil is quartz sand and is chiefly covered with heather and brushwood.

  • Five well-contrasted types of scenery in Derbyshire are clearly traceable to as many varieties of rock; the bleak dry uplands of the north and east, with deep-cut ravines and swift clear streams, are due to the great mass of Mountain Limestone; round the limestone boundary are the valleys with soft outlines in the Pendleside Shales; these are succeeded by the rugged moorlands, covered with heather and peat, which are due to the Millstone Grit series; eastward lies the Derbyshire Coalfield with its gently moulded grasscovered hills; southward is the more level tract of red Triassic rocks.

  • Heather covers large tracts, and also affords pasture for sheep. The development of forest trees is insignificant.

  • Holm of Papal, "isle of the priest" (2), belonging to Bressay parish, and Linga, "heather isle" (8), to the parish of Tingwall, lie S.E.

  • The retention of the tropical pattern by the Highlanders is due directly to environment, since the kilt is better suited than trousers for walking over wet heather.

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