Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
heath or some aspect of one.
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- adjective resembling heath
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ericoids are small-leafed shrubs from 0.5 m to 2 m tall which give fynbos its heathlike appearance.
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Instead of grass, black, half-burnt roots of a wiry plant appeared, which I afterwards found in flower (SEE INFRÀ), and one small, shrubby, brown bush, very much resembling heath; apparently a Chenopod with heathlike leaves, and globular hairy heads of flowers.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia Thomas Mitchell 1823
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Rational Review 2009
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INFRÀ), and one small, shrubby, brown bush, very much resembling heath; apparently a Chenopod with heathlike leaves, and globular hairy heads of flowers.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003
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