common heaths

Heath (h

th), Sir Edward Richard George 1916-2005.

British politician who as prime minister (1970-1974) secured his country's entry into the Common Market (1973) and sought to offset high inflation by controlling wages, which led to a crippling miners' strike (1974).

heath (h

th)

1. Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and related genera, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers. Also called heather.

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

[Middle English, uncultivated land, from Old English hth; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.]

heath [hiːθ]

1. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Brit a large open area, usually with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation, esp heather

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called heather any low-growing evergreen ericaceous shrub of the Old World genus Erica and related genera, having small bell-shaped typically pink or purple flowers

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of several nonericaceous heathlike plants, such as sea heath

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Austral any of various heathlike plants of the genus Epacris: family Epacridaceae

5. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) any of various small brown satyrid butterflies of the genus Coenonympha, with coppery-brown wings, esp the large heath (C. tullia)

[Old English hǣth; related to Old Norse heithr field, Old High German heida heather]

heathlike adj

heathy adj

Heath [hiːθ]

(Biographies / Heath, Edward (Richard George) (1916 M, British, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: prime minister) Sir Edward (Richard George). born 1916, British statesman; leader of the Conservative Party (1965-75); prime minister (1970-74)

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Noun	1.	heath - a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family - heathers erica, true heath - any plant of the genus Erica Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heath - small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather, ling, broom - common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere Cassiope mertensiana, white heather - heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers Connemara heath, Daboecia cantabrica, St. Dabeoc's heath - low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple Bryanthus taxifolius, mountain heath, Phyllodoce caerulea - small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri, purple heather - semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation heathland barren, wasteland, waste - an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation; "the barrens of central Africa"; "the trackless wastes of the desert" Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - 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

heath

noun moorland, moor, scrub, upland, open country, heathland, common land The park contains natural heath, woods and wetland.

Translations

heath [hiːθ] N (esp Brit) (= moor etc) → brezal m, páramo m (esp LAm) (also heather) → brezo m

heath [ˈhiːθ] n (British) → lande f
heat haze n → brume f de chaleur

heath

(= moorland) → Heide f; (= type of country) → Heide f, → Heideland nt

(= plant) → Heidekraut nt, → Erika f

heath [hiːθ] n (Brit) (moor) → landa, brughiera; (plant) → erica, brugo

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