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Heath
A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a cooler and damper climate.
Heaths are widespread worldwide but are fast disappearing and considered a rare habitat in Europe. They form extensive and highly diverse communities across Australia in humid and sub-humid areas where fire regimes with recurring burning are required for the maintenance of the heathlands. Even more diverse though less widespread heath communities occur in Southern Africa. Extensive heath communities can also be found in the California chaparral, New Caledonia, central Chile, and along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to these extensive heath areas, the vegetation type is also found in scattered locations across all continents, except Antarctica.
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Heath (noun)
A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
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Heath (noun)
Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae.
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Heath (noun)
Many of the species in the genus Erica
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Heath (noun)
Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
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Heath (noun)
Both species in the genus noshow=1
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Heath (noun)
Any of the species in the genus noshow=1, Australian heath
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Heath (noun)
Any of the species in the genus noshow=1, beard heath
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Heath (noun)
Certain butterflies and moths
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Heath (noun)
Any of the species in the genus noshow=1, mountain heath
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Heath (noun)
The palearctic species of Coenonympha, a genus of brush-footed butterfly
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Heath (noun)
, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
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Heath (noun)
, native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
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Heath (noun)
, the heath fritillary
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Moor (noun)
an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath
“A cold, biting wind blew across the moor, and the travellers hastened their step.”
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Moor (noun)
a game preserve consisting of moorland
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Moor (verb)
To cast anchor or become fastened.
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Moor (verb)
To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like
“the vessel was moored in the stream”
“they moored the boat to the wharf.”
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Moor (verb)
To secure or fix firmly.