Definition of True heath

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Erica.


Lexicographical Neighbors of True Heath

true cementoma
true cholinesterase
true colours
true density
true diverticulum
true dwarf
true dwarfism
true fir
true flycatcher
true frog
true frogs
true fungus
true glottis
true guava
true heath (current term)
true hypertrophy
true jasmine
true knot
true laurel
true leaf
true lobster
true love
true lover's knot
true lover's knots
true loves
true mahogany
true marmoset
true muscles of back

Literary usage of True heath

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

1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"It is described by Gerard, who says that it is " the heath that the ancients took to be the right and true heath ; " but he does not state his grounds for ..."

2. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"It is described by Gerard, who says that it is " the heath that the ancients took to be the right and true heath ; " but he does not state his grounds for ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1899)
"The plant I mean is the Crowberry, which is so like a true heath in its foliage and manner of growth, that even the botanists, who did not fail to remark ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... may be called moss or lichen heaths, sin« the soil conditions are those of the true heath, though the exposure is perhaps too great for the shrubs. ..."

5. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1860)
"The Epacris was mistaken by the first settlers for a true heath; and there may be good reason to doubt whether there is sufficient difference to warrant the ..."

6. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan by Henry Chandler Cowles (1899)
"Before the true heath plants cover the soil, the open places are inhabited more or less abundantly by such plants as Prunus pumila, Salix glaucophylla and ..."

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