Heath vs Peat - What's the difference?
heath | peat |
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:
# 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
#
Soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas.
(obsolete) A pet, a darling; a woman.
* 1594 , , I. i. 78 :
As nouns the difference between heath and peat
is that heath is a tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland while peat is soil formed of dead but not fully decayed plants found in bog areas.As a proper noun Heath
is {{surname}.heath
English
(wikipedia heath)Noun
- There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.
Usage notes
* The word heaths may describe multiple disconnected heathlands.Synonyms
* heatherAnagrams
*peat
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown; perhaps a borrowing from an unattested Pictish or Brythonic source.Noun
Derived terms
* peatySee also
* (wikipedia)Etymology 2
Compare .Noun
(en noun)- And let it not displease thee, good Bianca, / For I will love thee ne'er the less, my girl. / A pretty peat !