| 单词 | mountain heather |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmountain heather mountain heather n. (a) the common heather, Calluna vulgaris, which often grows in mountainous country (frequently poetic); (b) U.S. any of various small shrubs of the family Ericaceae; esp. any of the plants constituting the genus Phyllodoce. ΚΠ 1805 W. Scott Hellvellyn 10 Dark green was that spot 'mid the brown mountain-heather. 1879 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 6 337 Beneath the rhododendrons..were rich cushions studded with the white stars of Leiophyllum buxifolium... The natives call it mountain heather. 1927 Sci. Monthly Dec. 522 It passed from the lodgepole pine into the white bark pine and its carpet of wood rush and clumps of purple mountain heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis). 1985 Amer. Midland Naturalist 113 362 Vegetation was sparse, consisting mostly of red mountain heather (Phyllodoce empetriformis). < as lemmas |
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