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heath
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[hiːθ], (Noun)
Definitions:
- an area of open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy soil, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses
(e.g: horses were being exercised on the heath)
- a dwarf shrub with small leathery leaves and small pink or purple bell-shaped flowers, characteristic of heaths and moorland
- a small light brown and orange European butterfly which typically has eyespots on the wings, the caterpillar feeding on grasses
- a yellowish-brown chiefly day-flying European moth of heathland and grassland
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Origin
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Old English hǣth, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch heide and German Heide
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