erica cinerea

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   common low European shrub with purple-red flowers

   Synonymsbell heatherheather bellfine-leaved heath

   Broadererica

Questions about erica cinerea

What does erica cinerea mean?

erica cinerea means "common low European shrub with purple-red flowers".

What is another word for erica cinerea?

Close synonyms include bell heather, heather bell, fine-leaved 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 cinerea a common word?

erica cinerea 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.