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单词 heathery
释义

heatheryn.

/ˈhiːθəri/
Etymology: < heath n. + -ery suffix: compare pinery, fernery.
A collection of heaths; a place in which heaths are grown.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > collections of specific plants
water gardena1626
hortus siccus1687
heathery1804
muscarium1853
filicetum1856
tulip-field1969
1804 H. C. Andrews (title) The Heathery, or Monograph of the Genus Erica.
1849 Beck's Florist 10 I know from experience that Heaths will thrive as well in a greenhouse..as they would do in a heathery.
1850 Beck's Florist Feb. 33 A skilful disposition of the plants in the Heathery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

heatheryadj.

/ˈhɛðəri/
Forms: Also 1500s hadrie.
Etymology: < heather n. + -y suffix1.
Covered with or abounding in heather; of the nature or appearance of heather.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > heather or heath and similar plants > [adjective]
heathya1450
heathery1535
lingy1649
heathered1831
ericineous1852
ericaceous1882
ericoid1900
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 340 In craig and cleuche, and mony hadrie hill.
1712 Earl of Cromarty in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 296 The Surface is covered with a heathy, and (as they call it) a heathery Scurf.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 152 Flowers that strangers seem Amid the heathery wild.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 6 The antler'd monarch of the waste Sprung from his heathery couch in haste.

Derivatives

ˈheatheriness n.
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1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ i. 67 The romance of the moor has been recently disturbed, and even the gor-cock has begun to lose the old racy heatheriness.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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