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anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app. Heath is defined as part of the family Ericaceae of plants. As well as three varieties of heather, the heath also has woods and open grassland and a sandy beach. Add heath to one of your lists below, or create a new one.

The paler brown small heath butterflies can be put up from rough grass when one walks through it. Here are the idioms that are related to the word heath. View an extensive list of words below that are related to the meanings of the word Heath meanings in Urdu in Urdu. Join Macmillan Dictionary on Twitter and Facebook for daily word facts, quizzes and language news. The peat-swamp forest was relatively more intact than the heath forest that had often been disturbed by local logging activities. Both specific leaf area and area per leaf of heath forest seedlings were lower than those of peat-swamp forest seedlings.

The bird fauna of heathlands are usually cosmopolitan species of the region. In the depauperate heathlands of Europe, bird species tend to be more characteristic of the community, and include Montagu's harrier and the tree pipit. The birds of the South African fynbos include sunbirds, warblers and siskins. Heathlands are also an excellent habitat for insects including ants, moths, butterflies and wasps; many species are restricted entirely to it. One such example of an organism restricted to heathland is the silver-studded blue butterfly, Plebejus argus.