noun. Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and other genera of the heath family, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers.

noun. An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A plant of the genus Erica, or, by extension, of the genus Calluna; any plant of the family Ericaceæ, called by Lindley heathworts.

noun. One of several small butterflies of different genera. The large heath is Erinephile tithonus; the small, Cænonympha pamphilus.

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noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

noun. the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below).

noun. a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (Triodia decumbens), growing on dry heaths.

noun. 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.

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noun. See Heath grouse (above).

noun. a species of bitter vetch (Lathyrus macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky.

noun. a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

noun. Any small evergreen shrub of the genus Erica.

noun. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

noun. a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers

noun. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation

"The vet says the puppy will recover but he cannot guarantee her long term heath which is of great concern to me."

alkali heath  australian heath  besomor broom-heath  cornish heath  false heath  

heath game  

barren  waste  wasteland  

Keith  Leith  Meath  beneath  bequeath  

brushwood  dune  fern  furze  glade  

Arabia Deserta  Death Valley  Sahara  alkali flat  alluvial plain  

heather  ling