Definitions for heathery

heathery heath·er·y

Spelling: [heth -uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈhɛð ə ri/

Heathery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in heathery (aeehhrty).

Definitions for heathery

adjective

  1. of or like heather.
  2. abounding in heather.

Origin of heathery

First recorded in 1525-35; heather + -y1

Examples for heathery

heathery ferns, with white and yellow edges to their leaves, grew under his bare feet.

Rocks and streams, heathery hills, and woods full of bracken.

The night was coming on fast,—the stormy night of early winter—for the wind had risen, and swept howling over the heathery ridge.

They were half-way down the heathery hill-side when a very ruffled and indignant Sadie overtook them.

She had chosen the bottom of a heathery slope and took some finding.

Over the heathery pasture-land of North Uist 1500 head and more of horned newt of his range in half-wild freedom.

The dales are separated from each other by high uplands, which for the most part are heathery moorland or, at best, hill pastures.

Only the fact that a hummock of heathery sand intercepted the lower part of the Heat-Ray saved them.

The road was scarcely more than a track across a heathery common.

Torrents of men poured over the hill-crests and down their heathery sides in columns.

Word Value for heathery
Scrable

17

Words with friends

14

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