heather-bell

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Erica cinerea

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heather-bell (plural heather-bells)

  1. a plant of species Erica cinerea native to western and central Europe,; bell heather
    Synonym: heath-bell
    • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 171
      The Phoenicians slept under their piled grey rocks; the chimneys of the old mines pointed starkly; early moths blurred the heather-bells; cartwheels could be heard grinding on the road beneath; and the suck and sighing of the waves sounded gently, persistently, for ever.

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