Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several willows having long rodlike twigs used in basketry, especially the Eurasian Salix viminalis and S. purpurea.
- n. A twig of one of these trees.
- n. Any of various similar or related trees.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One of various species of willow (Salix) whose tough flexible branches are employed for wickerwork, withes, etc. The white or common basket-osier of Europe (adventive in America) is Salix viminalis, also called
velvet osier . Other important kinds are the (Norfolk) brown osier, S. triandra; varieties of the rose or purple willow, S. purpurea, sometimes called red or green osier; and the golden osier (S. alba, var. vitellina), with bright-yellow branches. The American black willow, S. nigra, is also available as an osier-tree, and many other willows are more or less so used. The growing of osiers and their use in manufactures is in Europe a considerable industry. - Made or consisting of willow or other shoots or twigs.
- n. Either the round-leaved dogwood, Cornus circinata, or the alternate-leaved dogwood, C. alternifolia, the twigs of which are green.
- n. Leucothoe racemosa, an ornamental shrub of the eastern United States with racemes of waxy white flowers borne on the under side of recurved racemes.
Wiktionary
- n. A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
- n. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
- n. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
- adj. Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
WordNet 3.0
- n. flexible twig of a willow tree
- n. any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture
Etymologies
- From French osier ("basket willow, withy"), from Old French osiere (compare Medieval Latin auseria ("willow-bed")), from Frankish *halster (compare Low German Halster, Hilster ("bay willow")). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English oser and Old French osier, both from Medieval Latin osera, osiera. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The purple osier is already set with green points from which are to emerge fluffy catkins, and the sallow is preparing its gold and silver blossoms which are to be the early palm, dripping with honey and humming with insects.”
“They are small islands planted entirely with willows, and are called osier-holts.”
“On the arrival of the news of his second ejectment, he turned to his wife and said: "Wife, get the creels ready again;" that is, the osier baskets in which he had carried his children in his first remove.”
“It is a place like the court; but instead of pales there are hurdles, which are made of sticks that will bend, such as osier twigs; and they are twisted and made very fast, so that nothing can creep in, and nothing can get out.”
“Malia wore a dress from Anthropologie the 'unconditional osier dress', while Sasha wore a 'Clarissa jacquard dress' from BB Dakota.”
“To replace a defunct rhododendron I planted a small red osier dogwood and on the hot sunny side of the house, a canadice grape vine that promises prolific fruit suitable for jams and jelly.”
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“At the top of the ridge he built a larger gazebo, a curved shape that he wove, basketlike, out of saplings and osier so that its curved lines seemed to grow out of the surrounding landscape.”
“It has mats of water lily Nymphaea alba and bushes of goat willow Salix caprea, grey willow S. cinerea and purple osier S. purpurea.”
“I also gathered silk grass, hemp, and yellow osier bark to twine and plait myself a carry sack, decorating it with red thread Mazais gave me after I made a lotion of marsh mallow roots to soothe her sore hands.”
“I worked in the garden, dividing and transplanting roots, sowing seeds, planting slips of red osier to make a living fence, for willow is quick to root.”
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
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Words and phrases from A River Runs Through It, & Other Stories by Norman Maclean.
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sighlence's Words
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