Usually means: Plant with small, colorful flowers.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word heather:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. heather: Merriam-Webster
  2. heather: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heather: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heather: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heather: Vocabulary.com
  6. Heather, heather: Wordnik
  7. heather: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Heather, heather: Wiktionary
  9. heather: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. heather: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. heather: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. heather: Dictionary.com
  13. heather: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Heather (Silent Hill), Heather (disambiguation), Heather (fabric), Heather (given name), Heather (name), Heather (song), Heather (surname), Heather: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Heather: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. heather: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. heather: Rhymezone
  18. Heather: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. heather: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. heather: FreeDictionary.org
  21. heather: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. heather: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. heather: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heather: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. heather: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather, Heather: Botanical Name listing of Plants

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heather: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Heather[ing], Heather: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
noun:  A plant in the family Ericaceae.
noun:  Various species of the genus Erica.
noun:  Various species of the genus Cassiope.
noun:  A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
noun:  (textiles) The use of interwoven yarns of mixed colours to produce flecks.
adjective:  Of a purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
noun:  A female given name from English.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.

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