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Erica

Erica \E*ri"ca\, n. [NL., fr. L. erice heath, Gr. ?.] (Bot.) A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Erica

fem. proper name, feminine form of Eric. The plant genus is Modern Latin, from Greek ereike "heath."

Wiktionary
erica

n. Any of many heathers, of the genus ''Erica'', used as garden plants

WordNet
erica

n. any plant of the genus Erica [syn: true heath]

Wikipedia
ERICA

ERICA, or the Experiment on Rapidly Intensifying Cyclones over the Atlantic, is a scientific field project that started in the winter of 1988/1989. Its aims were to better understand the processes involved in rapid cyclogenesis, and so improve understanding and forecasting of the situations that cause it.

Erica (disambiguation)

Erica is a plant genus.

Erica may also refer to:

  • Erica (spider), a jumping spider genus
  • Erica (given name)
  • ERICA, a meteorological system
  • Erica, Victoria, a town in Australia
    • Erica railway station, Victoria
  • Erica, Emmen, a village in Drenthe, the Netherlands
  • SS Erica, an Italian steamship in service 1935-40
  • Erica, a 1970s public television program starring Erica Wilson
Erica (spider)

Erica is a genus of the spider family Salticidae ( jumping spiders). Its only described species, Erica eugenia, is found from Panama to Brazil.

Usage examples of "erica".

Erica van Sloan watched their faces as they gazed at Balam, reminding her of babies trying to reason out the intricacies of a mirror.

Erica had lots of friends, a good school, a nearby park where she could run with her dog, Checkers, and plenty of beach to play on.

There were several groups of identicals, including three full blooms in a front row which resembled Erica Slyker just enough to make one realize they or their plant-ancestor must have been grown with the help of photos and exodermal tokens of her sister Alice.

Whenever it looked as if I might be granted a few minutes respite, a not-quite-familiar voice would sneak up beside me and whisper in my ear: I have a message for you from Erica Hollander.

And then another voice: I have a message for you from Erica Hollander, the stranger whispered in my ear.

Erica carnea, Erysimum pumilum, Erythronium dens-canis, Fritillaria armena, Galanthus nivalis, G.

It was backbreaking, frequently frustrating labor, and only the physical fear of Bowley, Horseface and Counter Trimain and the respect in which all held Erica kept them at it through three more days.

On this particular day, Horseface had taken the hunters out, leaving Merle Bowley, Counter Trimain and Erica to supervise the groups of sweating, grimy, loudly cursing Ganiks at work up on the scree.

Through Bowley, Horseface and Counter, Erica forced her will in this matter.

Erica, when Horseface and his hundreds had been unable to find a fairly large group of foemen that watchers on the shelf could clearly see.

So I sent Burr, Samow, and Kerguelen off to grab seats on the next departing ferry shuttles to other habs, with orders to do a full cap routine on her if she showed up, and I took myself and Erica down to the local cop shop to puppetize our way into their holding tank in case she turned out to have stayed home.

Erica Thompson told Zerk, still bleeding as he sat in a chair in front of her desk.

Kenneth Galbraith and Salvador Dali and Erica Jong and Liv Ullmann and the Flying Farfans and on and on.

Lastly, the five following kinds excited no secretion, though left on the leaves for two or three days, namely lettuce, Erica tetralix, Atriplex hortensis, Phalaris canariensis, and wheat.

Listening to her explain a new approach to the teaching of reading, Cameron came to the startling discovery that his interest in Erica had flagged.