- A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute
evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in
Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating
ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. - Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are
European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See
Illust. of Heather. - A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country
overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
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