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Cornish heath   /kˈɔrnɪʃ hiθ/   Listen
Cornish heath

noun
1.
Bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere.  Synonym: Erica vagans.






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"Cornish heath" Quotes from Famous Books



... ocean, which has sunk and sunk beneath the waves. Old Plato called it Atlantis, and told strange tales of the wise men who lived therein, and of the wars they fought in the old times. And from off that island came strange flowers, which linger still about this land:—the Cornish heath, and Cornish moneywort, and the delicate Venus's hair, and the London-pride which covers the Kerry mountains, and the little pink butterwort of Devon, and the great blue butterwort of Ireland, and the Connemara heath, and the bristle-fern of the Turk waterfall, and many a strange ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley



Words linked to "Cornish heath" :   erica, true heath



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