heath
heath Lexical Profile
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• noun
An extensive area of open, uncultivated land, typically in Great Britain and northwestern Europe, characterized by acidic, sandy soil and low-growing shrubs such as heather and gorse.
"We walked for miles across the windswept heath, watching skylarks rise from the scrubby bushes."
Any of various low-growing evergreen shrubs of the family Ericaceae (especially the genus Erica), native to Europe and South Africa, bearing tiny scale-like leaves and clusters of small, bell-shaped pink, purple, or white blossoms.
"By late summer, the hillsides were carpeted with blooming purple heath."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English 'hǣþ', meaning untilled land or heather, derived from Proto-Germanic '*haithiz' (which also gave rise to 'heathen', originally meaning a dweller on the heath).