<p><strong>noun</strong></p><ul><li>a tract of open and uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs.</li><li>any of various low-growing evergreen shrubs common on such land, as the common heather, <em>Calluna vulgaris</em>.</li><li>any plant of the genus <em>Erica</em>, or of the family <em>Ericaceae</em>.</li></ul>