Definition of Common heath

1. Noun. Small erect shrub of Australia and Tasmania with fragrant ivory flowers.

Exact synonyms: Blunt-leaf Heath, Epacris Obtusifolia
Generic synonyms: Epacris

2. Noun. Spindly upright shrub of southern Australia and Tasmania having white to rose or purple-red flowers.
Exact synonyms: Epacris Impressa
Generic synonyms: Epacris

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Heath

common ginger
common glow-worm
common glow-worms
common glowworm
common goldeneye
common goldeneyes
common good
common grape hyacinth
common grape vine
common green lacewing
common green lacewings
common ground
common gull
common gulls
common gum cistus
common heath (current term)
common hepatic artery
common hepatic duct
common hepatica
common hop
common hops
common horehound
common hornbeam
common hornbeams
common horsetail
common horsetails
common hyacinth
common iguana
common iliac artery
common iliac lymph nodes

Literary usage of Common heath

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1878)
"THE common Heath (Calluna vulgaris) grows naturally on most of the barren land that is suitable for planting. When it is rank and strong-growing, ..."

2. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Henry Cadman Jones, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Richard Horton Smith, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1874)
"19s. lid.,"—which is the same penalty as that imposed for each of the five previously described trespasses on the common heath. The defendants contended ..."

3. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"common heath, or Ling. cens. White-flower'd common Heath. Nat. of Britain. Fl. June—August. Jj. ^. 101. ..."

4. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The common heath varies considerably in size, according to the soil and situation in which it ... The common heath abounds in almost every part of Europe, ..."

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