heath.
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
Meaning & usage
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Erica spp.
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Cassiope spp.
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Daboecia spp.
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
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
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
Any butterfly or moth of species: Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
Any butterfly or moth of species: Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
Any butterfly or moth of species: Ematurga atomaria (common heath)
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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