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heather-bells

heather-bells is the plural of heather-bell.

Meaning of heather-bell

Noun

heather-bell (plural heather-bells)

  1. a plant of species Erica cinerea native to western and central Europe,; bell heather
    • 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.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 171
    Synonyms:
    heath-bell

Questions about heather-bells

What is heather-bells the plural of?
Heather-bells is the plural of heather-bell.

Words near heather-bells in the dictionary

  1. heather cock
  2. heather cocks
  3. heather vole
  4. heather voles
  5. heather-bell
  6. heather-bells
  7. heather-bleat
  8. heather-mixture
  9. heather-mixtures
  10. Heatherbrae
  11. heathered

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