red heath

noun

1

: a heather (Calluna vulgaris)

2

: a New Zealand shrub (Dracophyllum recurvum) of the family Epacridaceae resembling a heath and having small red flowers

3

or red heather : either of two low growing alpine heaths (Phyllodoce empetriformis and P. bremeri) having rose-colored flowers

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