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ERICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any plant of the genus Erica
Synonyms:
erica; true heath
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("erica" is a kind of...):
heath (a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "erica"):
briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath (evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes)
Erica carnea; spring heath; winter heath (dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers)
bell heather; Erica cinerea; fine-leaved heath; heather bell (common low European shrub with purple-red flowers)
bell heather; cross-leaved heath; Erica tetralix (dwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers)
Cornish heath; Erica vagans (bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere)
Erica lusitanica; Portuguese heath; Spanish heath (erect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England)
Erica perspicua; Prince-of-Wales'-heath; Prince of Wales heath (South African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers)
Holonyms ("erica" is a member of...):
genus Erica (large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths)
