Definition of Heathlike

1. Adjective. Resembling heath.

Partainyms: Heath

Definition of Heathlike

1. Adjective. Resembling a heath or some aspect of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heathlike

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heathlike

heather
heather-bell
heather-mixture
heather bell
heather mixture
heathered
heatherlike
heathers
heathery
heathfowl
heathier
heathiest
heathland
heathlands
heathless
heathlike (current term)
heaths
heathy
heating
heating curve
heating element
heating oil
heating pad
heating plant
heating surface
heating system
heating up
heating value
heatingly
heatings

Literary usage of Heathlike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"heathlike, herbaceous to somewhat woody: Ivs. alternate or rarely opposite, small, narrow, margin recurved: fls. small, in dense, short-peduncled racemes or ..."

2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"... fine leaves crowded on ascending branches. with tiny scalelike leaves, scarcely j inch Hudsonia A low, tufted, diffusely branched shrub, heathlike long, ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"... and the forest growth thinned out and dwindled down to dwarf proportions as we emerged upon the rolling heathlike expanse of the East or Lower Plains. ..."

4. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1915)
"... house standing alone, for only they could afford to occupy an exposed place. A great part of the township, however, is a barren, heathlike plain, ..."

5. Our National Parks by John Muir (1901)
"... hardy, heathlike shrub belonging to the rose family, flourishing on dry ground below the pino belt, and often covering areas of twenty or thirty square ..."

6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1873)
"Embryo heathlike, with entire coriaceous have», or rarely herbs with small membranous leaves. (See the observations p. 54.) Ovules 2 in each cell. ..."

7. The English Rock-garden by Reginald John Farrer (1919)
"... is indeed a heathlike little plant of much charm, from the sandy hills of the American coast; <i. ..."

8. Greenland Icefields and Life in the North Atlantic: With a New Discussion of by George Frederick Wright, Warren Upham (1896)
"... one can hardly cut out a sod anywhere without including roots and branches of this heathlike procumbent evergreen. He further writes : In warm summers ..."

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