erica tetralix

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erica tetralix - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Heather \Heath"er\ (h[e^][th]"[~e]r; 277. This is the only
     pronunciation in Scotland), n. [See Heath.]
     Heath. [Scot.]
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Gorse and grass
           And heather, where his footsteps pass,
           The brighter seem.                       --Longfellow.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Heather bell (Bot.), one of the pretty subglobose flowers
        of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and
        Erica cinerea).
        [1913 Webster]

erica tetralix - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Erica tetralix
      n 1: dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers [syn:
           cross-leaved heath, bell heather, Erica tetralix]