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Heath Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Heath?
[n] (British) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
[n] a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers Synonyms | Synonyms for Heath: heathland Related Terms | Find terms related to Heath: alkali flat | alluvial plain | Arabia Deserta | barren | barren land | barrens | basin | bottomland | brush | bush | bushveld | campo | champaign | champaign country | coastal plain | Death Valley | delta | desert | desolation | down | downs | dust bowl | fell | flat | flat country | flatland | flats | grass veld | grassland | howling wilderness | karroo | lande | level | llano | lowland | lowlands | lunar landscape | lunar mare | lunar waste | mare | mesa | mesilla | moor | moorland | open country | outback | pampa | pampas | peneplain | plain | plains | plateau | playa | prairie | Sahara | salt flat | salt marsh | salt pan | savanna | sebkha | steppe | table | tableland | tree veld | tundra | upland | vega | veld | waste | wasteland | weald | weary waste | wide-open spaces | wild | wilderness | wilds | wold See Also | barren | Brewer's mountain heather | broom | Bruckenthalia spiculifolia | Bryanthus taxifolius | bush | Calluna vulgaris | Cassiope mertensiana | Connemara heath | Daboecia cantabrica | erica | Ericaceae | family Ericaceae | heath family | heather | ling | mountain heath | Phyllodoce breweri | Phyllodoce caerulea | purple heather | Scots heather | shrub | spike heath | St. Dabeoc's heath | true heath | waste | wasteland | white heather Heath In Webster's Dictionary \Heath\, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS.
h??; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei?r waste land, Dan.
hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture;
cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh?tra field. [root]20.]
1. (Bot.)
(a) A low shrub ({Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris}), with
minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink
flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms,
thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It
is also called {heather}, and {ling}.
(b) Also, any species of the genus {Erica}, of which
several are European, and many more are South African,
some of great beauty. See Illust. of {Heather}.
2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of
country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the
blasted heath. --Milton
{Heath cock} (Zo["o]l.), the blackcock. See {Heath grouse}
(below).
{Heath grass} (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus
{Triodia} ({T. decumbens}), growing on dry heaths.
{Heath grouse}, or {Heath game} (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse
({Tetrao tetrix}), which inhabits heats; -- called also
{black game}, {black grouse}, {heath poult}, {heath fowl},
{moor fowl}. The male is called, {heath cock}, and
{blackcock}; the female, {heath hen}, and {gray hen}.
{Heath hen}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Heath grouse} (above).
{Heath pea} (bot.), a species of bitter vetch ({Lathyris
macrorhizus}), the tubers of which are eaten, and in
Scotland are used to flavor whisky.
{Heath throstle} (Zo["o]l.), a European thrush which
frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.
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