Meaning

13 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

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    пу́стошьpústošʹ

    пу́стищеpústyšče, пу́сткаpústka

    a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation

  2. (countable, uncountable)Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

    a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers

  3. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.

    (countable, uncountable)In Erica spp.

  4. (countable, uncountable)In Cassiope spp.

  5. (countable, uncountable)In Daboecia spp.

  6. (countable, uncountable)In Epacris spp. (Australian heath)

  7. (countable, uncountable)In Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)

  8. (countable, uncountable)In Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)

  9. Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.

    (countable, uncountable)Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath

  10. (countable, uncountable)Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath

  11. Any butterfly or moth of species:

    (countable, uncountable)Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)

  12. (countable, uncountable)Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)

Examples

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  1. These heaths bloom in the wintertime.

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  2. You shouldn't fertilize heaths too much.

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  3. Ziri's heath is a foot high.

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  4. Ziri loves both heaths and heathers.

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  5. There are many different varieties of heath.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
type of land:
Русский
By meaning 2
shrub of the family Ericaceae:
type of land:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
shrub of the family Ericaceae:

Origin

From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste

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”).

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