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 (hth) n. 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 h  th; see kaito- in Indo-European roots.] |
heath [hiːθ]
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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
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(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 flowerserica, 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 |
| 2. | heath - a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation 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 |
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