English noun: heath |
1. | heath (plant) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Brewer's mountain heather, broom, Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, Bryanthus taxifolius, Calluna vulgaris, Cassiope mertensiana, Connemara heath, Daboecia cantabrica, erica, heather, ling, mountain heath, Phyllodoce breweri, Phyllodoce caerulea, purple heather, Scots heather, spike heath, St. Dabeoc's heath, true heath, white heather |
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| Member meronym | Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family |
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2. | heath (location) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation |
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| Synonyms | heathland |
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| Broader (hypernym) | barren, waste, wasteland |
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| Domain region | Britain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
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