erica carnea

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   dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers

   Synonymswinter heathspring heath

   Broadererica

Questions about erica carnea

What does erica carnea mean?

erica carnea means "dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers".

What is another word for erica carnea?

Close synonyms include winter heath, spring heath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is erica carnea a common word?

erica carnea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.