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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun heath has 2 senses
- heath(n = noun.plant) Array - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers; Array is a member of ericaceae, family ericaceae, heath family
- heath(n = noun.location) heathland - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; Array is a kind of barren, waste, wasteland
has particulars: erica, true heath, bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heath, broom, calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, scots heather, cassiope mertensiana, white heather, connemara heath, daboecia cantabrica, st. dabeoc's heath, bryanthus taxifolius, mountain heath, phyllodoce caerulea, brewer's mountain heather, phyllodoce breweri, purple heather
is a kind of bush, shrub
CIDE DICTIONARY
heath, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. hai field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh field.
the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). -- a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (Triodia decumbens ), growing on dry heaths. -- or a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix ), which inhabits heaths; -- 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 . -- See Heath grouse (above). -- a species of bitter vetch (Lathyrus macrorhizus ), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. -- a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.
- 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 calledheather , andling . [1913 Webster] - A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. [1913 Webster]"Their stately growth, though bare,
Stands on the blasted heath." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
heath, n.
1 an area of flattish uncultivated land with low shrubs.
2 a plant growing on a heath, esp. of the genus Erica or Calluna (e.g. heather).
1 an area of flattish uncultivated land with low shrubs.
2 a plant growing on a heath, esp. of the genus Erica or Calluna (e.g. heather).
Derivative
heathless adj. heathlike adj. heathy adj.
Etymology
OE h{aelig}th f. Gmc
THESAURUS
heath
Arabia Deserta, Death Valley, Sahara, alkali flat, alluvial plain, barren, barren land, barrens, basin, bottomland, brush, bush, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coastal plain, 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, 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, woldROGET THESAURUS
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Plain
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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