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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

• Syn: ↑grass tree, ↑Richea pandanifolia

• 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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Main Entry: ↑tree

Useful english dictionary. 2012.