mountain heath

1. 1.

   small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States

   SynonymsPhyllodoce caeruleaBryanthus taxifolius

   Broaderheath

   Part ofPhyllodoce

Questions about mountain heath

What does mountain heath mean?

mountain heath means "small shrub with tiny evergreen leaves and pink or purple flowers; Alpine summits and high ground in Asia and Europe and United States".

What is another word for mountain heath?

Close synonyms include Phyllodoce caerulea, Bryanthus taxifolius. 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 mountain heath a common word?

mountain heath 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.