heath

noun

1. 1

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

   1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth

   These two stood in the corridor, waving till the last of the platform was out of sight; then they came into our compartment, and the woman cried a little. Soon she dried her eyes, and went back into the corridor, to have a last glimpse of her native heath.

2. 2

   Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

   There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.

3. 3

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

4. 4

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

5. 5

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

6. 6

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

7. 7

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

8. 8

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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 11

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

12. 12

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

13. 13

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

Forms

plural

heaths