a low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple
plant noun (plants and fungi)
Daboecia cantabrica*
(* Daboecia cantabrica may be used in a singular or plural context)
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Connemara heath | D. cantabrica [abbreviation, species] | Saint Dabeoc's heath | Saint-Dabeoc's-heath | St-Dabeoc's-heath | St. Dabeoc's heath | St.-Dabeoc's-heath
can mean: Heath (habitat) or heathland, low-growing woody vegetation, mostly consisting of heathers and related species | Oak-heath association, a type of temperate hardwood forest characterized by oaks and plants of the heath family | Heath forest, ... (35 of 497 words, 39 senses)
in botany, common name for some members of the Ericaceae, a family of chiefly evergreen shrubs with berry or capsule fruits. Plants of the heath ... (25 of 354 words)
a tract of wasteland | an extensive area of rather level open uncultivated land usually with poor coarse soil, inferior drainage, and a surface rich ... (24 of 132 words, 5 senses, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
any of the low evergreen shrubs of the genus Erica, of the family Ericaceae, with about 500 species, most of which are indigenous to South Africa, ... (26 of 102 words)
a tract of uncultivated, open land with infertile, often sandy soil covered with rough grasses and small bushes or heather | a plant of a family that ... (26 of 79 words, 3 senses, 1 etymology, pronunciation)
a tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs. | any of various low-growing evergreen shrubs common on such land, as the ... (23 of 64 words, 4 senses, pronunciation)
Any small evergreen shrub of the genus Erica. | [uncountable] A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. (22 of 49 words, 2 senses, 1 etymology)
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