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   heath

   /hiːθ/

   noun

   • 1. an area of open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy soil, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses: British "horses were being exercised on the heath"
   • ▪ vegetation dominated by dwarf shrubs of the heather family: "heath vegetation"
   • 2. a dwarf shrub with small leathery leaves and small pink or purple bell-shaped flowers, characteristic of heaths and moorland.
   • 3. a small light brown and orange European butterfly which typically has eyespots on the wings, the caterpillar feeding on grasses.
   • 4. a yellowish-brown chiefly day-flying European moth of heathland and grassland.

   Word Origin Old Englishhǣth, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heide and German Heide.

   Derivatives

   • 1. heathy adjective

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