1. heath(n = noun.plant) - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers;
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a member of ericaceae, family ericaceae, heath family
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
2. heath(n = noun.location) heathland - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation;
is a kind of barren, waste, wasteland
1. A low shrub (
2. 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]
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).
Derivative:
heathless adj. heathlike adj. heathy adj.
Etymology:
OE h{aelig}th f. Gmc
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.
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.
australian heath, blunt-leaf heath, common heath, connemara heath, cornish heath, cranberry heath, cross-leaved heath, fine-leaved heath, heath aster, heath family, heath fowl, heath hen, heath pea, heath violet, mountain heath, port jackson heath, portuguese heath, prince of wales heath, sea heath, spanish heath, spike heath, spring heath, st. dabeoc's heath, tree heath, true heath, winter heath