erica : Idioms & Phrases


erica arborea

  • noun evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
    tree heath; briar; brier.
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erica carnea

  • noun dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers
    winter heath; spring heath.
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erica cinerea

  • noun common low European shrub with purple-red flowers
    heather bell; fine-leaved heath; bell heather.
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erica jong

  • noun United States writer (born in 1942)
    Jong.
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erica lusitanica

  • noun erect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England
    Portuguese heath; Spanish heath.
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erica perspicua

  • noun South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers
    Prince-of-Wales'-heath; Prince of Wales heath.
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erica tetralix

  • noun dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers
    bell heather; cross-leaved heath.
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erica vagans

  • noun bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
    Cornish heath.
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genus erica

  • noun large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths
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