Heath

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and related genera, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers. Also called heather.
  • n. An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any small evergreen shrub of the genus Erica.
  • n. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A low shrub (Erica vulgaris 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Open, uncultivated land; a desert tract of land; specifically, in Great Britain, an uncultivated tract of heathy or shrubby land, usually of a desolate character.
  • n. A plant of the genus Erica, or, by extension, of the genus Calluna; any plant of the family Ericaceæ, called by Lindley heathworts.
  • n. One of several small butterflies of different genera. The large heath is Erinephile tithonus; the small, Cænonympha pamphilus.
  • n. In Tasmania, the popular name for several species of the genus Epacris, especially E. impressa, a beautiful slender shrub bearing white or red axillary flowers. See Epacris.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers
  • n. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
  • Equivalent
    heath game   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    waste    barren    wasteland   
    Variant
    heather    ling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    moor    heather   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Keith    Leith    Meath    beneath    bequeath    leath    seith    sheath    teeth    underneath   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    heather    moor    prairie    brushwood    moorland    hillside    pasture    marsh    furze    fern