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Savanna vs Heath - What's the difference?

savanna | heath |

As proper nouns the difference between savanna and heath

is that savanna is of modern usage, variant of savannah while heath is .

savanna

English

Alternative forms

* savannah

Noun

(en noun)
  • A tropical grassland with scattered trees

    • Derived terms

    * savanna flower * savanna sparrow * savanna wattle

    External links

    * ("savanna" on Wikipedia) ----

    heath

    English

    (wikipedia heath)

    Noun

  • A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • * ~1602 , William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act I, scene I:
  • *:1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath /3. There to meet with Macbeth
  • Any small evergreen shrub of the family Ericaceae .
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 258:
    • There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
  • # Many of the species in the genus Erica
  • # Many of the species in the genus Cassiope
  • # Both species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • # Any of the species in the genus
  • (label) Certain butterflies and moths
  • # The palaearctic species of Coenonympha , a genus of brush-footed butterfly
  • ## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa, the small heath
  • ## , native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America, the large heath
  • # , the heath fritillary
  • #

    • Usage notes

    * The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.

    Synonyms

    * heather

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