| 单词 | cat-heather |
| 释义 | > as lemmascat-heather cat-heather n. the name given to various kinds of heather in Scotland (Jamieson, 1825); see Sc. National Dict. at Cat. n.1 I. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [noun] heather1335 ling?c1357 heath1626 grig1691 bottle heath?1711 sea-heath1713 heather-bell1725 red heath?1788 Calluna1803 Scotch heath1822 Erica1826 winter heath1842 heathwort1847 heath-blooms1858 St. Dabeoc's heath1863 cat-heather1864 honey bottle1868 French heath1871 1864 T. Guthrie Let. 9 July in Autobiogr. (1877) xii. 645 The hum of bees who are all on the qui vive, as the heather (the ‘cat-heather’ as it is called) is now coming out. 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names 92 Cat-heather, more than one kind of heath seems to be so called in Scotland..(Calluna vulgaris),..Erica cinerea,..or possibly E. Tetralix. 1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 33 Bits of cat-heather were coming pink in tufts. < as lemmas |
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