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Definition of True heath
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Erica.
Generic synonyms: Heath
Group relationships: Genus Erica
Specialized synonyms: Briar, Brier, Erica Arborea, Tree Heath, Erica Carnea, Spring Heath, Winter Heath, Bell Heather, Erica Cinerea, Fine-leaved Heath, Heather Bell, Bell Heather, Cross-leaved Heath, Erica Tetralix, Cornish Heath, Erica Vagans, Erica Lusitanica, Portuguese Heath, Spanish Heath, Erica Perspicua, Prince Of Wales Heath, Prince-of-wales'-heath
Lexicographical Neighbors of True Heath
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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