Heath·er n.  Heath. [Scot.]
  Gorse and grass
  And heather, where his footsteps pass,
  The brighter seem.   --Longfellow.
  Heather bell Bot., one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and Erica cinerea).
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  Erica tetralix
       n : dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers [syn: cross-leaved
           heath, bell heather]