Heath Definition & Meaning
Any of various low-growing shrubs of the genera Erica or Calluna, as heather, common on such land. An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor. A tract of open wasteland, esp. in the British Isles, covered with heather, low shrubs, etc.; moor. Designating a family of dicotyledonous woody shrubs and small trees, including the blueberry, mountain laurel, and rhododendrons. 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. These heaths were originally made or expanded by centuries of human clearance of the natural forest and woodland vegetation, by grazing and burning. Referring to heathland in England, Oliver Rackham says, "Heaths are clearly the product of human activities and need to be managed as heathland; if neglected they turn into woodland". Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the wo...