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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024heath•er /ˈhɛðɚ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Plant Biologya heath plant having small pinkish purple flowers.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024heath•er (heᵺ′ər),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyany of various heaths, esp. Calluna vulgaris, of England and Scotland, having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
adj. - Clothing(of a yarn or fabric color) subtly flecked or mottled:all-cotton turtlenecks in your choice of five solid colors plus heather gray and heather green.
- 1300–50; spelling, spelled variant of hether, earlier hedder, hadder, hather, Middle English hathir; akin to heath
- a female given name.
heather, + adj. - Clothing(of a yarn or fabric color) subtly flecked or mottled:all-cotton turtlenecks in your choice of five solid colors plus heather gray and heather green.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: heather /ˈhɛðə/ n
Also called: ling, heath a low-growing evergreen Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Calluna vulgaris, that grows in dense masses on open ground and has clusters of small bell-shaped typically pinkish-purple flowers- any of certain similar plants
- a purplish-red to pinkish-purple colour
adj - of a heather colour
- of or relating to interwoven yarns of mixed colours: heather mixture
Etymology: 14th Century: originally Scottish and Northern English, probably from heathˈheathered adj ˈheathery adj |