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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of plants, natural order Ericaccœ, nearly allied to Erica, from which it is distinguished chiefly by the structure of its capsule and the small number of its seeds.

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

  • noun a genus having only one species.

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  • noun A common European heath / heather of genus Calluna

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  • noun one species

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