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Lathyris macrorhizus
Heath Heath, n. [OE. heth waste land, the plant heath, AS. h??; akin to D. & G. heide, Icel. hei?r waste land, Dan. hede, Sw. hed, Goth. haipi field, L. bucetum a cow pasture; cf. W. coed a wood, Skr. ksh?tra field. [root]20.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A low shrub (Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling. (b) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather. 2. A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage. Their stately growth, though bare, Stands on the blasted heath. --Milton Heath cock (Zo["o]l.), the blackcock. See Heath grouse (below). Heath grass (Bot.), a kind of perennial grass, of the genus Triodia (T. decumbens), growing on dry heaths. Heath grouse, or Heath game (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse (Tetrao tetrix), which inhabits heats; -- called also black game, black grouse, heath poult, heath fowl, moor fowl. The male is called, heath cock, and blackcock; the female, heath hen, and gray hen. Heath hen. (Zo["o]l.) See Heath grouse (above). Heath pea (bot.), a species of bitter vetch (Lathyris macrorhizus), the tubers of which are eaten, and in Scotland are used to flavor whisky. Heath throstle (Zo["o]l.), a European thrush which frequents heaths; the ring ouzel.

Meaning of Rhizus from wikipedia

- Rhizus may also refer to Ριζαίον on the Black Sea, modern Rize. Rhizus or Rhizous (Gr****: Ριζούς (ο)) was a town and polis of Magnesia in ancient Thessaly...
- Homolium, Iolcus, Magnesia, Meliboea, Methone, Mylae, Nelia, Olizon, Pagasae, Rhizus, Spalaethra, and Thaumacia. Homer. Iliad. Vol. 2.756. Aristot. ap. Athen...
- The specific epithet, derived from the Gr**** words bulbus ("bulbous") and rhizus ("root"), refers to the bulbous base of the stipe. Wei TZ, Yao YJ, Wang...
- times, its Gr**** name was usually Ριζούντα (Rizunda). Its Latin forms are Rhizus and Rhizaeum, the latter of which is used in the Catholic Church's list...
- Poliorcetes, who removed thither the inhabitants of Nelia, Pagasae, Ormenium, Rhizus, Sepias, Olizon, Boebe and Iolcos, all of which were afterwards included...
- Armeniacs (originally a tourma) Duchy of Chaldia Trebizond Pontic coast Rhizus, Cerasous, Polemonion, Paiperta Charsianon§ (thema Charsianoù, Θέμα Χαρσιανοῦ)...
- (Russian), Riant - Ριάντ (Gr****), Riad (Catalan, German, Spanish). Rize Rhizus or Rhizaeum (Latin) რიზინი - Rizini (Laz), Rizė (Lithuanian), ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸಿ -...
- districts, one of them being Tzanica, that is Chaldia, and mentions Athinae, Rhizus and Trebizond among its cities. From the second half of the eight century...
- Aegean coast between Eurymenae and Homolion. Eurymenae was located between Rhizus and Myrae. The town's location has not been ascertained. Richard Talbert...
- that Sepias was one of the towns, along with Nelia, Pagasae, Ormenium, Rhizus, Olizon, Boebe, and Iolcus that were reduced to mere villages when being...