Example sentences for: tetralix

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  • Dwelly also gives fraoch-an-ruinnse for the cross-leaved heath ( E. tetralix ) which might mean `heather with the long tail,' but more probably means `heather for rinsing or scouring.

  • fraoch- `fived [sic] leaved heath' (for E. cinerea) badain fraoch- `cat heather' (for E. tetralix), also rendered frangach as mionfhraoch `small heather' and fraoch `faulty, blemished(?)

  • 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.

  • ' In Scots English (and Burns's songs) reenge (in its variant forms) is a `scouring pad made of the twisted stems of heather,' E. tetralix presumably being best for this purpose.


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