Meaning & use
Heathy
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Covered with or resembling heath; characteristic of open, uncultivated land with low shrubby vegetation.
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They hiked across the heathy moorland, purple with blooming heather.
The heathy hillside was dotted with gorse and wild bracken.
A note on using this word
Not to be confused with "healthy"; "heathy" specifically describes landscape covered in heath vegetation like heather and gorse.
Words with a similar meaning
heath-covered
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