spike heath

1. 1.

   small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers

   SynonymsBruckenthalia spiculifolia

   Broaderheath

   Part ofBruckenthalia

Questions about spike heath

What does spike heath mean?

spike heath means "small evergreen mat-forming shrub of southern Europe and Asia Minor having stiff stems and terminal clusters of small bell-shaped flowers".

What is another word for spike heath?

Close synonyms include Bruckenthalia spiculifolia. 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 spike heath a common word?

spike 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.