Community of low woody shrubs with small, narrow leaves.
An area of vegetation covered with dwarf shrubs of the Heath family, such as Heather (Calluna) or Heath (Erica), on poor, acid, Gland (1) Gland (2) Glandular hairs usually sandy and well-drained soil, or it may be damp (wet-heath).
Any plant of the genus Erica, or sometimes used in a wider sense for other small-leafed shrubs of the family Ericaceae or its Australasian equivalent Epacridaceae; or a type of vegetation (also called heathland) in which shrubs like heaths and heathers (Calluna) dominate, usually occurring on shallow, poorly drained, acid soils on exposed hills or moors— as in the ‘blasted heath’ in Macbeth.