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"heath" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often moorland (8 letters).
Definitions
a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
Word origin
From Middle English heth, heeth, hethe, from Old English hǣþ (“heath, untilled land, waste; heather”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþi, from Proto-Germanic *haiþī (“heath, waste, untilled land”), from Proto-Indo-European *kayt- (“forest, wasteland, pasture”).
Used in a sentence
“1. Where the place?/2. Vpon the Heath/3. There to meet with Macbeth”
“There was nobody living in Jim's old house, and some of the windows was broken; but there was heath growing back and front.”
“Edward Heath, former British prime minister.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Open moor”5 letters
02“Open scrubland”5 letters
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