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BEACH HEATHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beach heather mean?
• BEACH HEATHER (noun)
The noun BEACH HEATHER has 1 sense:
1. small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
Familiarity information: BEACH HEATHER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
beach heather; Hudsonia tomentosa; poverty grass
Hypernyms ("beach heather" is a kind of...):
subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)
Holonyms ("beach heather" is a member of...):
genus Hudsonia; Hudsonia (small evergreen subshrubs of North America)
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