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Definition of Heathlike
1. Adjective. Resembling heath.
Definition of Heathlike
1. Adjective. Resembling a heath or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heathlike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathlike
Literary usage of Heathlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"heathlike, herbaceous to somewhat woody: Ivs. alternate or rarely opposite, small,
narrow, margin recurved: fls. small, in dense, short-peduncled racemes or ..."
2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... fine leaves crowded on ascending branches. with tiny scalelike leaves, scarcely
j inch Hudsonia A low, tufted, diffusely branched shrub, heathlike long, ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"... and the forest growth thinned out and dwindled down to dwarf proportions as
we emerged upon the rolling heathlike expanse of the East or Lower Plains. ..."
4. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1915)
"... house standing alone, for only they could afford to occupy an exposed place.
A great part of the township, however, is a barren, heathlike plain, ..."
5. Our National Parks by John Muir (1901)
"... hardy, heathlike shrub belonging to the rose family, flourishing on dry ground
below the pino belt, and often covering areas of twenty or thirty square ..."
6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1873)
"Embryo heathlike, with entire coriaceous have», or rarely herbs with small
membranous leaves. (See the observations p. 54.) Ovules 2 in each cell. ..."
7. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... is indeed a heathlike little plant of much charm, from the sandy hills of the
American coast; <i. ..."
8. Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic: With a New Discussion of by George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham (1896)
"... one can hardly cut out a sod anywhere without including roots and branches of
this heathlike procumbent evergreen. He further writes : In warm summers ..."
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