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Heath

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.

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Barren 76% connected

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Shrub 76% connected

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

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Waste 76% connected

Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.

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Broom 76% connected

A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shru…

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Erica 76% connected

A genus of shrubby plants, including the heaths, many of them producing beautiful flowers.

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Heather 76% connected

Heath.

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Ling 76% connected

A large, marine, gadoid fish (Molva vulgaris) of Northern Europe and Greenland. It is valued as a food fish and is largely salted and dried. Called a…

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