heath

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland. countable,uncountable
    — 1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth
  2. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae. countable,uncountable
    — There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
  3. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Erica spp. countable,uncountable
  4. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Cassiope spp. countable,uncountable
  5. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Daboecia spp. countable,uncountable
  6. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Epacris spp. (Australian heath) countable,uncountable
  7. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Leucopogon spp. (beard heath) countable,uncountable
  8. Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.; in Phyllodoce spp. (mountain heath) countable,uncountable
  9. Any butterfly or moth of species:; Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.; Coenonympha pamphilus, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath countable,uncountable
  10. Any butterfly or moth of species:; Coenonympha spp., a genus of brush-footed butterfly, of the palaearctic.; Coenonympha tullia, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath countable,uncountable
  11. Any butterfly or moth of species:; Melitaea athalia (heath fritillary) countable,uncountable
  12. Any butterfly or moth of species:; Semiothisa clathrata (latticed heath) countable,uncountable
  13. Any butterfly or moth of species:; Ematurga atomaria (common heath) countable,uncountable

词形变化

heaths plural

词汇关系

近义词
heather
衍生词
Heathcliff heathcropper heathen heathery heathless heathlike heathy

词源

From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”).
Cognate with Dutch heide (“heath, moorland”), German Heide (“heath, moor”), Norwegian hei (“heath”), Swedish hed (“heath, moorland”), Old Welsh coit (“forest”), Welsh coed (“forest”), Latin būcētum (“pastureland”, literally “cow-pasture”) -cetum (“place of, grove of”).
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