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heather

/heth-er/US // ˈhɛð ər //UK // (ˈhɛðə) //

石楠,石南,石楠花,石南花

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various heaths, especially Calluna vulgaris, of England and Scotland, having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : subtly flecked or mottled: all-cotton turtlenecks in your choice of five solid colors plus heather gray and heather green.

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Examples

  • Kooper would chat a bit with Heather and then shower and get to work on the computer.

  • They were even considering sending Kooper and Heather to Atlanta to live near one of the coaches he’d trained with.

  • He described Kooper’s “protective loyalty,” how he once ran in from the outfield of a church softball game to confront someone who was having words with Heather.

  • To hear it now — after years of pain, work, doubt and determination — felt like a seal of approval from Heather.

  • A good day, Heather said, is when she can get out of bed and work.

  • Cal Poly Pomona student Heather DeCosta described it as “kind of just boxing us in at all four sides of the street.”

  • No one cut the interview short and, as Heather helpfully pointed out, “You are free to leave.”

  • Before Lehman, she told me in 2010, was a nine-year relationship with a guy with one leg: “My Heather Mills,” Rivers called him.

  • Check out this fine sampling from the likes of Karen Shirely, Margalit Fox, and the most-talented, Heather Lende.

  • In 2007, Heather Mills—an amputee and alpine skier (and yes, the former wife of Paul McCartney)—danced on the show.

  • A little head suddenly appeared above the wet heather-bells, then as quickly disappeared, and all was again quiet.

  • This time he got to the tree, and placed his foot on a part of the root, while with his hands he clung on to a clump of heather.

  • With the dear Dominie's note promising to be an usher came an antique silver casket filled with white heather.

  • There is heather and wild thyme up the Trwyn, very comfortable to doze on; suppose we have our nap up there?

  • She came lightly along towards the house under the livid sky with the heather on each side of her.