Definition of Spring heath

1. Noun. Dwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers.

Exact synonyms: Erica Carnea, Winter Heath
Generic synonyms: Erica, True Heath

Lexicographical Neighbors of Spring Heath

spring cleaning
spring cleans
spring cleavers
spring conjunctivitis
spring constant
spring cress
spring equinox
spring festival
spring fever
spring finger
spring for
spring frog
spring green
spring greens
spring gun
spring heath (current term)
spring in one's step
spring lancet
spring ligament
spring line
spring lines
spring mattress
spring onion
spring onions
spring ophthalmia
spring out
spring peeper
spring peepers
spring quillwort
spring roll

Literary usage of Spring heath

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

1. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"Of course this charming dwarf spring Heath, E. carnea, would grow as well in any peaty waste as on its native mountains, and prove a plant of no ordinary ..."

2. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1897)
"... recession of spring-heath. The underground streams, of which springs are the outlets, have often effected much in the way of dissolving rock-material, ..."

3. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1902)
"SCHOOLEY'S MOUNTAIN SPRING (Heath House Spring), in New Jersey, is a weakly saline chalybeate water. The PACIFIC CONGRESS SPRINGS, in California, ..."

4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"... •>m I never more may meet On spring, heath, along the hill-top edge, Wander in gladness, and wind down, To that still roaring dell, of which I told ..."

5. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1814)
"1. 689. Europe. »HI. S. of Europe. 1633 vi.vii. sea. Engl. bot. t. 1046. England. BITTER-VETCH. Я. K. iv. p. 303. upright, yellow, spring. Heath Pea. ..."

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