Heath (disambiguation)
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Heath or heathland is low-growing woody vegetation, mostly consisting of heathers and related species.Heath can also mean:
In nature
Animals
Birds
- Heath Hen (Tympanuchus cupido cupido), an extinct North American bird in the grouse family
Invertebrates
- Coenonympha, a genus of brush-footed butterflies whose palearctic species are known as the Heaths, in particular
- Coenonympha pamphilus, a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and Northern Africa known as the Small Heath
- Coenonympha tullia, a butterfly native to Europe, Asia except tropical India and Indochina, and North America known as the Large Heath
- Melitaea athalia, a butterfly known as the Heath Fritillary
- Semiothisa clathrata, a moth known as the Latticed Heath
Mammals
- "Heath sheep" (Heidschnucke), a North German type of sheep
- Heath sheep, an obsolete term for various British sheep, especially the Scottish Blackface
Habitats
- Heath forest, a type of tropical moist forest found in areas with acidic, extremely nutrient-poor sandy soils
- Heaths in the British National Vegetation Classification system
Plants
- Heath family or heather family, Ericaceae
- Australian heath, any of the species in the genus Epacris
- Beard heath, any of the species in the genus Leucopogon
- Heath, many of the species in the genus Cassiope
- Heath, either of the two species in the genus Daboecia
- Heath, many of the species in the genus Erica
- Mountain heath, any of the species in the genus Phyllodoce
Places
- Heath (list of places), list of places with "Heath" in their name
Republic of Ireland
- Heathland, County Westmeath, a townland in the civil parish of Lackan, barony of Corkaree
United Kingdom
- Heath, Cardiff, Wales
- Heath, Derbyshire, England
- Heath, Herefordshire
- Heath, Shropshire
- Heath, West Midlands
- Heath, West Yorkshire
- The Heath, Staffordshire
United States
- Towns and cities
- Heath, Alabama
- Heath, Indiana
- Heath, Kentucky
- Heath, Massachusetts
- Heath, Montana
- Heath, Ohio
- Heath, Texas
- Townships
People
- Heath (musician) (Hiroshi Morie, born 1968), a Japanese musician
- Heath (name), list of people with "Heath" as their surname or forename
- Edward Heath (1916–2005), a British politician and Prime Minister from 1970-1975
- Elliot Heath, American distance runner
- Garrett Heath, American distance runner
- Heath Brothers, an American band
- Heath Ledger (1979–2008), Australian actor
- Heath L'Estrange (born 1985), Australian Rugby League player
- Michael Heath (cartoonist) (born 1935), a British cartoonist
- William Heath (1737 – 1814), a self-described "corpulent, balding farmer" from Massachusetts, famed for his "Circle of Fire' on April 19, 1775, who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
Art, entertainment, and media
- Egdon Heath, a fictitious heath in Thomas Hardy's Wessex
- Heath, a fictional character on The Walking Dead TV series, played by Corey Hawkins
Companies, institutions and organisations
- Allen & Heath, a manufacturer of audio mixing consoles, based in Penryn, Cornwall, UK
- D.C. Heath and Company, a publishing company in Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
- Heath Elementary School (disambiguation)
- Heath Grammar School, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England
- Heath High School (Kentucky), USA (closed in 2013)
- Heath High School (Ohio), USA
Other uses
- Heath v. Alabama, 478 U.S. 82 (1985), interpreting the double jeopardy clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
- Heath bar, a confection
- Heath High School shooting, a 1997 shooting at the Kentucky high school
- Heath Robinson (codebreaking machine), a codebreaking machine used by the British in the Second World War
- Heath Robinson, used to describe an implausibly complex and impractical contraption, named after the cartoons of such machines by W Heath Robinson
- The Heath GAA, a gaelic football club in County Laois, Ireland
See also
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