Meaning

noun a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers

noun a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation

originFrom Middle English heth, heeth, 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…

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