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    TREE HEATH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 pipesplay

    Synonyms:

    briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath

    Classified under:

    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 longplay

    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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