heath family

noun

1. the plant family Ericaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous shrubs, trees, and woody plants growing in acid soil and having simple leaves, often showy flowers either solitary or in clusters, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the azalea, blueberry, cranberry, heather, madrone, mountain laurel, rhododendron, and trailing arbutus.

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Andromeda, an-drom′e-da, n. a genus of shrubs of the heath family: the name of a northern constellation.

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This volatile oil is obtained from the winter-green, an American shrub of the heath family, by distillation.

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Great Laurel (Rhododendron maximum) is also in the heath family.

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In the Tertiary also we get a member of the heath family, viz.

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This plant belongs to the heath family, and is first cousin to the blueberry and cranberry.

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