Erica

E`ri´ca

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(Bot.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

Thesaurus

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erica - any plant of the genus Erica true heath heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers genus Erica - large genus of low much-branched woody evergreens ranging from prostrate subshrubs to trees: true heaths Erica arborea, tree heath, briar, brier - 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 Erica cinerea, fine-leaved heath, heather bell, bell heather - 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