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heath.

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

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

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  2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

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  3. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Erica spp.

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  4. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Cassiope spp.

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  5. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Daboecia spp.

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  6. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)

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  7. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)

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  8. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)

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  9. Any butterfly or moth of species: Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic. Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath

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  10. Any butterfly or moth of species: Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic. Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath

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  11. Any butterfly or moth of species: Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)

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  12. Any butterfly or moth of species: Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)

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  13. Any butterfly or moth of species: Ematurga atomaria (common heath)

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Where this word comes from

From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).

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