heath
English Thesaurus
1. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation (noun.location)
| domain region | : | britain, great britain, u.k., uk, united kingdom, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, |
| definition | : | a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; `Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom (noun.location) |
2. a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers (noun.plant)
| hyponym | : | erica, true heath, |
| definition | : | any plant of the genus Erica (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heath, |
| definition | : | small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | broom, calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, scots heather, |
| definition | : | common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | cassiope mertensiana, white heather, |
| definition | : | heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | connemara heath, daboecia cantabrica, st. dabeoc's heath, |
| definition | : | low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | bryanthus taxifolius, mountain heath, phyllodoce caerulea, |
| definition | : | small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | brewer's mountain heather, phyllodoce breweri, purple heather, |
| definition | : | semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | ericaceae, family ericaceae, heath family, |
| definition | : | heathers (noun.plant) |
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