heather-bell
a. A name given to Erica tetralix (or spec. to its blossom), and sometimes also to E. cinerea. (In quot. 1725 app. = heath-bell 2.)
| 1725 Ramsay Gentl. Sheph. ii. iv, Blue heather-bells Bloom'd bonny on moorland. 1785 Burns To W. Simpson 56 Her moors red-brown wi' heather bells. 1808 Scott Marm. i. Introd. 18 Away hath passed the heather-bell, That bloomed so rich on Needpath-fell. |