What is "heath"

Heath \Heath\ (h[=e]th), n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h[=ae][eth]; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei[eth]r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. hai[thorn]i field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh[=e]tra field. [root]20.]

1. (Bot.)

   1. A low shrub ( Erica vulgaris or Calluna vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

   2. Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.

2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.

   Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath.
   --Milton

   Heath cock (Zo["o]l.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below).

   Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia ( Triodia decumbens), growing on dry heaths.

   Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse ( Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heaths; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen.

   Heath hen. (Zo["o]l.) See Heath grouse (above).

   Heath pea (Bot.), a species of bitter vetch ( Lathyrus macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky.

   Heath throstle (Zo["o]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

Old English hæð "untilled land, tract of wasteland," earlier "heather," influenced by Old Norse heiðr "field," from Proto-Germanic *haithiz (cognates: Old Saxon hetha, Old High German heida "heather," Dutch heide "heath," Gothic haiþi "field"), from PIE *kaito "forest, uncultivated land" (cognates: Old Irish ciad, Welsh coed, Breton coet "wood, forest").

n. 1 A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. 2 Any small evergreen shrub of the family ''Ericaceae''. 3 # Many of the species in the genus ''Erica'' 4 # Many of the species in the genus ''Cassiope'' 5 # Both species in the genus (taxlink Daboecia genus noshow=1) 6 # Any of the species in the genus (taxlink Epacris genus noshow=1), (vern Australian heath pedia=1) 7 # Any of the species in the genus (taxlink Leucopogon genus noshow=1), (vern beard heath pedia=1) 8 # Any of the species in the genus (taxlink Phyllodoce genus noshow=1), (vern mountain heath pedia=1) 9 (label en countable) Certain butterflies and moths 10 # The palaearctic species of ''Coenonympha'', a genus of brush-footed butterfly 11 ## (taxlink Coenonympha pamphilus species noshow=1), native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath 12 ## (taxlink Coenonympha tullia species noshow=1), native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath 13 # (taxlink Melitaea athalia species noshow=1), the heath fritillary 14 # (taxlink Semiothisa clathrata species noshow=1), a moth known as the (vern latticed heath pedia=1)

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

2. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation [syn: heathland]

Heath or heathland is low-growing woody vegetation, mostly consisting of heathers and related species.

Heath or Heathland can also mean:

HEATH (plagiarism/outsource) by Tan Lin is book "set" in plain text, composed of a mash up of data sources from RSS feeds, blog posts, Google searches, retrieved photographs, handwritten notes, and items of that nature. It is divided into multiple parts, the most famous of which being plagiarism/outsource. Lin devotes part of the book to a series of web searches regarding the death of actor Heath Ledger in 2008 in Untilted Health Ledger Project, which is assumed to be the reason for the name of the whole book.

, known exclusively by his stage name Heath, is a Japanese musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the bass player of the popular heavy metal band X Japan. He joined the group in 1992, replacing Taiji Sawada on bass, and stayed with them until their dissolution in 1997 and reunited with the band from 2007 onward.

After the breakup he focused on his solo career, until 2000 when he founded Dope HEADz with fellow X Japan guitarist Pata and former Spread Beaver percussionist/ programmer I.N.A.. The group ceased activity after its second album in 2002.

Heath is an Old English male given name, and surname, meaning "someone who lived at, on, or by, a moor or heath".

It may also refer to: