Willow

Definitions

1. A female given name from English of modern usage.
2. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
   countable, uncountable
3. A census-designated place in Alaska.
4. The wood of these trees.
   countable, uncountable
5. A town in Oklahoma.
6. A cricket bat.
   colloquial, countable, uncountable
7. A town in Wisconsin.
8. The baseball bat.
   countable, slang, uncountable
9. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.”

“And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.”

“The pounded leaves of the willow, drunk in a concoction, were formerly reputed to diminish amatory desires.”

“By old age she was emaciated, the bones jutting out of her face⟳ and her figure⟳ frail as a willow branch.”

“Before he died her father had run⟳ a nursery just outside the town. He loved trees so much he'd even named his two daughters and one son after them: Willow, Ashley and Oak.”

CEFR level