| 单词 | heath |
| 释义 | heath (once / 685 pages) n Heath is open land with low growing grasses and plants. If you travel to England, you can drive out in the countryside to see the heath that you've read about in novels. An open, sandy field of low shrubs and scrubby plants like gorse and heather is called a heath. Another word for this kind of uncultivated countryside is moor. A particular evergreen shrub is also called a heath; it's a low-growing plant with purplish flowers that commonly grows on, you guessed it, a heath. The Old English root of heath is the word hǣth, which means "wasteland." WORD FAMILYheath: heathlike, heaths USAGE EXAMPLESShe was married in that film to Heath Ledger, who became her real-life partner and the father of her daughter, Matilda Rose. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) Heath was arrested after detectives interviewed him early Tuesday. Washington Times(Dec 27, 2016) He served as a trade minister under Edward Heath, and was also the vice-chairman of the Conservative Party. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) 1n a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers Hypo|Hyper erica, true heath any plant of the genus Erica Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heathsmall evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers Calluna vulgaris, Scots heather, broom, heather, lingcommon Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere Cassiope mertensiana, white heatherheath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers Connemara heath, Daboecia cantabrica, St. Dabeoc's heathlow straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple Bryanthus taxifolius, Phyllodoce caerulea, mountain heathsmall shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri, purple heathersemi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States Erica arborea, briar, brier, tree heathevergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes Erica carnea, spring heath, winter heathdwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers Erica cinerea, bell heather, fine-leaved heath, heather bellcommon low European shrub with purple-red flowers Erica tetralix, bell heather, cross-leaved heathdwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers Cornish heath, Erica vagansbushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere Erica lusitanica, Portuguese heath, Spanish heatherect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England Erica perspicua, Prince of Wales heath, Prince-of-Wales'-heathSouth African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers bush, shrub a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems 2n a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation Syn|Hyper heathland barren, waste, wasteland an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation |
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