Heath vs Meadow - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between heath and meadow

is that heath is a tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland while meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

As proper nouns the difference between heath and meadow

is that heath is {{surname} while Meadow is a town in Texas.

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

meadow

English

(wikipedia meadow)

Noun

(en noun)

A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.

*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=(w)

, chapter=1, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston

, volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

Derived terms

* catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow