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[heth-er] / ˈhɛð ər /




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Greiff points out baby heather plants nearby now able to grow in gaps left by decayed moss.

From BBC May 30, 2026

One imagines not the ghost of Cathy or Heathcliff, but a trio of women, very much alive and striding through the heather, their minds alight with the stories they would tell, set among similar terrain.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

Labour MSPs had their traditional red rose, Reform UK a Scottish heather, the Greens what appeared to be a fuchsia pink gerbera and the Liberal Democrats a mini-mixed bouquet.

From BBC May 14, 2026

Only decades ago many of the cottages in Scotland’s Highlands were roofed in heather, bracken and marram grass.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

“Blackavar, do you know that earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we went for days across every kind of country—fields, heather, woods, downs—and never lost one rabbit?”

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams




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