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Definition of Common heath

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

2. Noun. Spindly upright shrub of southern Australia and Tasmania having white to rose or purple-red flowers.

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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