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vřesoviště — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • heath noun An open, uncultivated stretch of land, typically with sandy soil and low shrubs like heather.
  • moor noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.

Senses

vřesoviště is used for these senses in English:

  • heath A tract of level uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation; heathland.
  • heathland A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.
  • moor An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light (and usually acidic) soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. (Compare bog, peatland, marsh, swamp, fen.)

heath — full definition

  1. noun An open, uncultivated stretch of land, typically with sandy soil and low shrubs like heather.
  2. noun Any of several small evergreen shrubs, especially in the heather family.

moor — full definition

  1. noun A wide stretch of open, often hilly land covered in heather and rough grass, with poor, boggy soil.
  2. verb To tie up and fix a boat in place with ropes, chains, or an anchor.

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