Meaning
13 senses(countable, uncountable)A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
Heide
пу́стошьpústošʹ
пу́стищеpústyšče, пу́сткаpústka
a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
(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
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
(countable, uncountable)In Erica spp.
(countable, uncountable)In Cassiope spp.
(countable, uncountable)In Daboecia spp.
(countable, uncountable)In Epacris spp. (Australian heath)
(countable, uncountable)In Leucopogon spp. (beard heath)
(countable, uncountable)In Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath)
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
(countable, uncountable)Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
Any butterfly or moth of species:
(countable, uncountable)Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary)
(countable, uncountable)Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath)
Examples
64 sentencesThese heaths bloom in the wintertime.
You shouldn't fertilize heaths too much.
Ziri's heath is a foot high.
Ziri loves both heaths and heathers.
There are many different varieties of heath.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, wasteFrom 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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Forms
plural: heathsSynonyms
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