单词 | true heath |
释义 | true heath (once / 1688473 pages) n WORD FAMILY true heath: true heaths USAGE EXAMPLESLater he writes that the true Heath lay somewhere "between the sublime and the mundane". The Guardian(Jun 18, 2010) It is the Common Heath of mountain and moor, is very closely allied to the true Heaths, and has given rise to many varieties. Cook, Ernest Thomas, Trees and Shrubs for English Garden...(2010) A few plants of Calluna vulgaris have been found in Newfoundland and Massachusetts, but that is not a true Heath. Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson, The plant-lore & garden-craft of Sh...(2010) n any plant of the genus Erica Syn|Hypo|Hyper erica Erica arborea, briar, brier, tree heath evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes Erica carnea, spring heath, winter heathdwarf European shrub with very early blooming bell-shaped red flowers Erica cinerea, bell heather, fine-leaved heath, heather bellcommon low European shrub with purple-red flowers Erica tetralix, bell heather, cross-leaved heathdwarf European shrub with rose-colored flowers Cornish heath, Erica vagansbushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere Erica lusitanica, Portuguese heath, Spanish heatherect dense shrub native to western Iberian peninsula having profuse white or pink flowers; naturalized in southwestern England Erica perspicua, Prince of Wales heath, Prince-of-Wales'-heathSouth African shrub grown for its profusion of white flowers heath a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers |
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