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heathered

heathered adjective: covered with heather.

Adjective

heathered (not comparable)

  1. Covered with heather.
    • […] the land of mountain and flood, river, loch and tarn, brae and strath and heathered moor...1877, Nicholas Flood Davin, The Irishman in Canada
  2. Having flecks produced by interwoven yarns of mixed colours.

Origin of heathered

From heather + -ed.

Questions about heathered

What does heathered mean?
Heathered means covered with heather.
What part of speech is heathered?
Heathered is an adjective.

Words near heathered in the dictionary

  1. heather-bells
  2. heather-bleat
  3. heather-mixture
  4. heather-mixtures
  5. Heatherbrae
  6. heathered
  7. heatheries
  8. heatheriness
  9. heatherless
  10. heatherlike
  11. Heatherly

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