Heath vs Heathy - What's the difference?

heath | heathy |

As a noun heath

is a tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.

As a proper noun Heath

is {{surname}.

As an adjective heathy is

resembling heath.

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

(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

Anagrams

heathy

English

Adjective

(er)

Resembling heath

* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The hills here, and indeed all the heathy grounds in general, abound with the sweet-smelling plant which the Highlanders call gaul , and (I think) with dwarf juniper in many places. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1884, author=A C and F T Gregory, title=Journals of Australian Explorations, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The country consists of elevated sandy downs covered with heathy bushes and a few small banksia trees, it being only on the alluvial flats of the river that there is any grass or good soil. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1894, author=John Muir, title=The Mountains of California, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Here make ground for a meadow; there, for a garden and grove, making it smooth and fine for small daisies and violets and beds of heathy bryanthus, spicing it well with crystals, garnet feldspar, and zircon." }}