Example sentences for: erica

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  • GAELIC ENGLISH LATIN fraoch commom heather Calluna vulgaris gorm `blue heather' froach bell heather `red Erica cinerea dearg heather' fraoch- cross-leaved heath Erica tetralix Frangach `French heather' fraoch- Irish heath `Irish Erica erigena Eireannach heather' fraoch Connermara heath Daboecia cantabrica Dhaboch `St.

  • In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.

  • The Celts, pressed to the sea by the Romans, survived in lands either too rough for effective military operations or too incompatible to agriculture, but not too inhospitable for the Erica plant family.

  • Kimberly is black, and Erica is white.

  • The experiences of eighth graders Erica Taylor and Kimberly Smartt ought to subject hysteria about drugs to a little reality testing.


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