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Word | Heath |
Afrikaans Meaning | heath |
(British) a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation / a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae / A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. / an open area where nothing much grows expect small shrubs; a moor / an area of open uncultivated land, especially in Britain, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses., | |
Usage | ⇒ Ever more marginal land including wetlands, heaths , and steep hillsides had to be brought into cultivation as the century progressed, much of it inherently unsuited to arable production. |
Synonyms | moor, prairie, plain, steppe, savanna, desert, heathland, moorland, pampas, bush, downs, plateau, tundra, wasteland, barren, basin, champaign, llano, mesa, veld, |
Antonyms | highland, upland, |
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