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TREE HEATH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

Synonyms:

briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tree heath" is a kind of...):

erica; true heath (any plant of the genus Erica)

Meronyms (parts of "tree heath"):

briarroot (hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long

Synonyms:

grass tree; Richea pandanifolia; tree heath

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tree heath" is a kind of...):

Australian heath (any heathlike plant of the family Epacridaceae; most are of the Australian region)

Holonyms ("tree heath" is a member of...):

genus Richea; Richea (evergreen trees or shrubs of mountains of Australia and Tasmania)

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