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| heath [ heeth ] (plural heaths or heath) |
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1. geography shrubby uncultivated land: a tract of uncultivated, open land with infertile, often sandy soil covered with rough grasses and small bushes or heather
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2. plants low bush: a plant of a family that includes heather and some other low-growing evergreen bushes, commonly found on heaths. Genera Erica, Calluna.
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3. insects brown butterfly: a butterfly with coppery-brown wings. Genus Coenonympha.
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| [ Old English hāþ< Germanic, "unplowed land"] |
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