heather

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A low-growing Eurasian shrub (Calluna vulgaris) in the heath family, growing in dense masses and having small evergreen leaves and clusters of small, bell-shaped pinkish-purple flowers.
• noun A grayish purple to purplish red.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Heath: especially applied to Calluna vulgaris, the common heather.
• noun The crowberry, Empetrum nigrum.
• noun A tweed or similar fabric, usually 56 inches wide, woven of heather-wool, and presenting a color-effect like that of heather. Also called heather mixture.
• noun Menziesia pilosa. See Menziesia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Scot. Heath.
• noun (Bot.) one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather (Erica Tetralix, and Erica cinerea).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun botany An evergreen plant, Calluna vulgaris, with spiky leaves and small purple, pink, or white flowers.
• noun botany The Ericaceae family.
• noun botany Various species of the genus Erica.
• noun botany Various species of the genus Cassiope.
• noun A purple colour with a tint of pink and blue.
• adjective Of a purple colour with a tint with pink and blue.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
• noun interwoven yarns of mixed colors producing muted greyish shades with flecks of color