heath

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Etymology

From Middle English heeth, heth, 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”).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /hiːθ/
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  • Rhymes: -iːθ

Noun

heath (countable and uncountable, plural heaths)

  1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
    • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 258:
      There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
    1. Many of the species in the genus Erica
    2. Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
    3. Both species in the genus Daboecia
    4. Any of the species in the genus Epacris, Australian heath
    5. Any of the species in the genus Leucopogon, beard heath
    6. Any of the species in the genus Phyllodoce, mountain heath
  3. (countable) Certain butterflies and moths
    1. The palearctic species of Coenonympha, a genus of brush-footed butterfly
      1. Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
      2. Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
    2. Melitaea athalia, the heath fritillary
    3. Semiothisa clathrata, a moth known as the latticed heath
    4. Ematurga atomaria, the common heath

Usage notes

  • The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.

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