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• The filaments of certain willows are semiconnate.From the entry semiconnate
• This gene expression induction is consistent with willows' known rhizoremediation capabilities, and suggests the existence of S.2015 July 11, “Salix purpurea Stimulates the Expression of Specific Bacterial Xenobiotic Degradation Genes in a Soil Contaminated with…. From the entry rhizoremediation
• The best time to make your own fedge is in the winter when the willow is dormant.2011, Alice Bowe, High-Impact, Low-Carbon Gardening: 1001 Ways to Garden Sustainably, Portland, Or.: Timber Press, →ISBN, page 79. From the entry fedge
• Carrland comprises of pools or small ponds holding stands of willow and alder.2010, Keith Taylor, Exploring Nottinghamshire. From the entry carrland
• Tamarisk's long seed viability allows it to flourish under such conditions where willows and cottonwoods cannot.2000, James M. Aton, Robert S. McPherson, River Flowing from the Sunrise. From the entry superplant
• Patch ice clung to reeds and willow branches along the banks.1995, Robert Peters, For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II, page 3. From the entry patch ice
• Justice is not a willow in the wind; justice stands immutable against unjust forces.1989, Gerry Spence, With Justice for None, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry willow in the wind
• Willow and I even had our own language, as lots of twins do, but I stopped talking after she died.'2022 January 25, Emily Forbes, The Perfect Mother for His Son, Harlequin, →ISBN. From the entry person
• Today, that arid landscape is broken up with large areas of healthy riparian habitat filled with cottonwood, willow, and mesquite trees.2022 October 27, Julia Morton, “Restoration Efforts in the Colorado River Delta are Working”, in Audubon. From the entry salt cedar
• The hoarfrost was heavy on the willow trees and there was a skiff of snow on the ice surface.2019 October 30, Judy Kucharuk, “Skating in a winter wonderland”, in Alaska Highway News. From the entry skiff
• In the afternoon: cut back the crack willow around the pool; the fluffy flowers fall on the water.2018, John Lewis-Stempel, The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood. From the entry gosling
• Ryan Kelly has a young fedge (a living willow hedge).2015 February 7, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I soften a brick wall with plants?”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G7. From the entry fedge
• Willow is a building site when I reach the top.2015 September 29, Tom Butler-Roberts, “Tommy Fong's Final Farewell”, in York Vision, The University of York, page 11. From the entry occhiolism
• A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.2011 May 28, Jim Perrin, The Guardian. From the entry riparian
• Horda pulverized a small amount of mugwort and willow bark and set it in a waterbasket to brew into strong tea.2009, Grace Anne Schaefer, As Shadows Fall, page 123. From the entry waterbasket
• We become an ethical willow in the wind.2008, Ronald Arthur Howard, Clinton D. Korver, Ethics for the Real World, →ISBN, page 40. From the entry willow in the wind
• Walking up Redwood Avenue with its tunnel of cernuous willows.2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 80. From the entry cernuous
• She turns off towards the river, where the lawns lie autumned on the banks between the frayed golden willow branches.2003, Antjie Krog, A Change of Tongue, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry autumn
• Having decimated groves of cedar, quaking asps, weeping willows, poplars, and fruit trees on the last day of January, Alva C.1997, B. Franklin Cooling, Fort Donelson's Legacy, page 233. From the entry quaking asp
• In the gnarled willow trees by the brook I saw a tiny long-tailed titmouse disappear into a fork of a tree.1983, Bernd Heinrich, In a Patch of Fireweed, page 11. From the entry long-tailed titmouse
• Vania, whose name derives from a Bulgarian father, turns toward another inlet on the Sontea Branch, almost entirely masked by willows.1979 July 1, David Binder, “Exploring the Danube Delta”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Vania
• Willow basket making, an artisan inserting bye-stakes in the upsets.1972, Nilima Roy, Basketry and Mat-weaving in India. From the entry upset
• Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”1960, Gilbert Hunter Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, volume 5, page 60. From the entry cephalophore
• They had put in under the dappled shade of an overhanging willow a little down the left bank of the Isis.1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night. From the entry isis
• Cottontails were taken along the creeks, under the willows.1932, Isabel T. Kelly, “Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute”, in University of California Publications in California Archaeology an…. From the entry jack
• And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116. From the entry pollard
• Steadying herself by the long willow branches, ankle-deep she began.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry ankle-deep
• Fritillaries are as fundamental a part of the British water meadow landscape as Ratty and Mole slowly punting along under a willow tree.2014 April 6, Naomi Slade, “Fritillaries: Don't forget these lilies of the field: Make a pilgrimage to one of Britain’s few fritillary…. From the entry fritillary
• On the each end was a leanback made of willow rods tied together in a tapered trapezoidal form set at an angle.2013, Jeffrey D. Anderson, Arapaho Women's Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity, page 61. From the entry trapezoidal
• Least willow is found in alpine and arctic tundra in a variety of vegetation types from dry scree to cool, wet slopes.2010, Les Viereck, Alaska Trees and Shrubs, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry least willow
• Willow and Buffy share a look.2001, Gertrude Pocket, The Script Book Season, Pocket Pulse, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry guy code
• The species that characterize the heathland are wooly willow (Salix lanata), broadleaved willow (Salix callicorpea) and least willow (Salix herbacea), especially wooly willow.2000, Geothermal Training in Iceland, page 95. From the entry least willow
• The garment stalls carried the traditional blue vine-dressers' outfits, sunhats, and the great willow pitchforks grown in espalier at villages like Sauve.1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 223. From the entry espalier
• Somewhere near at hand, though out of sight, there was a clear, slow-moving stream where dace were swimming in the pools under the willow trees.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 3. From the entry dace
• Over by the creek-bed scarlet-flamed sumac shouldered the silver-green of the willows, and orange-colored bittersweet crept through the tangle of wild plums.1935, Bess Streeter Aldrich, chapter 43, in Spring Came on Forever. From the entry bittersweet

Meaning of willow

1. noun 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.
2. noun The wood of these trees.
3. noun A cricket bat.

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How do you use willow in a sentence?

Willow is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The filaments of certain willows are semiconnate.”

What is a short sentence with willow?

“The hair willowed around the scalp.”

What does willow mean?

Willow means 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.