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CORNISH HEATH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Cornish heath mean?
• CORNISH HEATH (noun)
The noun CORNISH HEATH has 1 sense:
1. bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
Familiarity information: CORNISH HEATH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Cornish heath; Erica vagans
Hypernyms ("Cornish heath" is a kind of...):
erica; true heath (any plant of the genus Erica)
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