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heath
- IPA[hiːθ]
英式
- an area of open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy soil, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses；vegetation dominated by dwarf shrubs of the heather family
noun: heath, plural noun: heaths
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- 1. British an area of open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy soil, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses horses were being exercised on the heath the marshland gave way to heath and sandy scrub
- ▪ vegetation dominated by dwarf shrubs of the heather family heath vegetation
- 2. a dwarf shrub with small leathery leaves and small pink or purple bell-shaped flowers, characteristic of heaths and moorland.
- 3. a small light brown and orange European butterfly which typically has eyespots on the wings, the caterpillar feeding on grasses.
- 4. a yellowish-brown chiefly day-flying European moth of heathland and grassland.
- (1872–1944), English cartoonist and illustrator; full name William Heath Robinson. He lampooned ...
Oxford Dictionary
- a small woody creeping plant of European salt marshes, bearing a superficial resemblance to heather.
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- a white-flowered shrub or tree of the heather family, with woody nodules that are used to make ...
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- ingeniously or ridiculously over-complicated in design or construction: a vast Heath Robinson mechanism
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- (1916–2005), British Conservative statesman; prime minister 1970–74; full name Sir Edward ...
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- (1916–2005), British Conservative statesman, prime minister 1970–4; full name Sir Edward ...
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- IPA[hēTH]
美式
- an area of open uncultivated land, especially in Britain, with characteristic vegetation of ... horses were being exercised on the heath the marshland gave way to heath and sandy scrub
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