has gloss | (noun) a low evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae; has small bell-shaped pink or purple flowers heath |
lexicalization | eng: heath |
subclass of | (noun) a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems bush, shrub |
has subclass | (noun) any plant of the genus Erica erica, true heath |
has subclass | (noun) small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers Bruckenthalia spiculifolia, spike heath |
has subclass | (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere heather, Scots heather, Calluna vulgaris, ling, broom |
has subclass | (noun) heath of mountains of western United States having bell-shaped white flowers Cassiope mertensiana, white heather |
has subclass | (noun) low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple Daboecia cantabrica, St. Dabeoc's heath, Connemara heath |
has subclass | (noun) small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States Phyllodoce caerulea, Bryanthus taxifolius, mountain heath |
has subclass | (noun) semi-prostrate evergreen herb of western United States Brewer's mountain heather, Phyllodoce breweri, purple heather |