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Heathland vs Fen - What's the difference?

heathland | fen |

As a noun heathland

is a tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.

heathland

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia heathland)
  • A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.

    • Synonyms

    * heath

    fen

    English

    (wikipedia fen)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline
  • * 1842 ,
    • In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]
    Derived terms
    * fenlike * fennish

    See also

    * bog * everglade * marsh * swamp * wetland

    Etymology 2

    From (fan), by analogy with (men) as the plural of (man).

    Noun

    fen' (p) (''singular:'' ' fan )
  • a plural form of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
  • * 1951 , Winthrop Sargeant, Through the Interstellar Looking Glass'' (in ''Life magazine, 21 May 1951)
    • Sad to relate, however, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen .

    Coordinate terms

    * fenne

    Derived terms

    * actifen * confen * eofen * fakefen * femme fen * femfen * femmefen * fringefen * litfen * mediafen * neofen * passifen * stfen * trufan * zinefen ----