heathclad

English

Etymology

heath +‎ clad

Adjective

heathclad (comparative more heathclad, superlative most heathclad)

1. Covered with heath.

   Synonym: heathy

   • 1848, Acton Bell [pseudonym; Anne Brontë], chapter 2, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. […], volume I, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby, […], →OCLC, page 31:

     Behind it lay a few desolate fields, and then, the brown heathclad summit of the hill

References

• “heathclad”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.