- any of various heaths, especially Calluna vulgaris, of England and Scotland, having small, pinkish-purple flowers.
- (of a yarn or fabric color) subtly flecked or mottled: all-cotton turtlenecks in your choice of five solid colors plus heather gray and heather green.
- a female given name.
- a low-growing evergreen Eurasian ericaceous shrub, Calluna vulgaris, that grows in dense masses on open ground and has clusters of small bell-shaped typically pinkish-purple flowers
- any of certain similar plants
- a purplish-red to pinkish-purple colour
- of a heather colour
- of or relating to interwoven yarns of mixed colours
