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🌸 Covered with heather 🧶 Mottled color
heathered

heathered

1 5.3
Land covered with low wild plants that make purple flowers
  • adjective
  • /ˈhɛðərd/
translation icon : cubierto de heather
  • The old painting depicted a heathered field under a clear blue sky.

Examples

  • Gene Kelly and I spent many hours... ...rehearsing and filming our dance numbers in front of these heathered hills.

    That's Entertainment! III (1994)

  • The scenic backdrop of the heathered landscape was breathtaking during the summer.

  • We walked through the heathered moorland, enjoying the vibrant colors of the blooming plants.

How Heathered

heathered
1 5.3
bare
217 2.2

Surface Forms

heathered positive

Morphology

heathered = heather (transparent) = heather + ed

Formed from the noun 'heather' plus the adjectival '-ed' meaning 'covered with or having heather', which is a direct and regular derivation.

Etymology

Heathered comes from the plant heather, which grows on open land called a heath. So heathered means 'covered with heather', like a hillside full of purple flowers.