tree heath

tree heath
noun
1. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Syn: ↑briar, ↑brier, ↑Erica arborea
Hypernyms: ↑erica, ↑true heath
Part Meronyms: ↑briarroot
2. gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long
Hypernyms: ↑Australian heath
Member Holonyms: ↑Richea, ↑genus Richea

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noun
1. : a shrubby heath (Erica arborea) of the Mediterranean and Caucasian region cultivated for its nearly globular white flowers
2. : a plant of the genus Dracaena
3. : a New Zealand heathlike shrub or small tree (Dracophyllum scoparium) of the family Epacridaceae with tiny white flowers in dense racemes

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the brier, Erica arborea.
[1770-80]

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tree heath another name for ↑brier2
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