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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.
Dwelly also gives fraoch nam curra bhitheag without translation.
The Celtic names grug and fraoch apparently come from Old Celtic v-roikos , which is cognate (or so says Klein's Etymological Dictionary ) with Latin brucus , meaning `maned or bristled.
He also assigns dluth fraoch to the clan Robertson, translated as the `fine-leaved heath' (i.e.
Johnston we learn that fraochdearg was the badge of clan MacDougal; fraoch-geal (white heather) the badge of the MacDonnells; and fraoch gorm the badge worn by clans MacDonald, MacNab, MacIntyre, and MacAlister, which practice could have been rather confusing during periods of clan warfare.