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Vinony

heath

noun

  1. shrubland habitat
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hiːθ/

name

Etymology: English surname, from the noun heath.

  1. A surname.

    “Edward Heath, former British prime minister.”

  2. A male given name.
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    “"But it must be better still outside, though. They say thousands of people are out in the parks and on the Heath watching it all."”

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noun

Etymology: From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”). Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).

  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. 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. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  4. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  5. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  6. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
  7. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
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