beach heather

1. 1.

   small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America

   Synonymspoverty grassHudsonia tomentosa

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofHudsonia

Questions about beach heather

What does beach heather mean?

beach heather means "small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America".

What is another word for beach heather?

Close synonyms include poverty grass, Hudsonia tomentosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beach heather a common word?

beach heather is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.