Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant of the genus Epilobium, so named from the willow-like leaves of E. angustifolium, the great willow-herb.
  • noun See Lythrum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A perennial herb (Epilobium spicatum) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus.
  • noun a perennial herb (Lythrum Salicaria) with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs

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Examples

  • Now is the time for the towering spikes of purple foxgloves and pink rosebay willow-herb.

    Plantwatch: a great year for wildflowers 2011

  • Then my quarry settled on a down-covered stem, deep inside the willow-herb thicket.

    Country Diary: Durham city 2011

  • • If any poet deserves to have his statue in a railway station, I feel that Edward Thomas does in Adlestrop Editorial, 28 January, except that no doubt willow-herb and grass and meadowsweet have long ago completely taken over.

    Letters: Aramaic lives 2010

  • And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Rosebay willow-herb (Epilobium angustifolium) (another Ninja)

    Organic gardening: Weed control 2007

  • And up he went through the transfigured tangles of the willow-herb and the uncut seeding grass of the farther bank.

    The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

  • It was the end one of a Victorian terrace, a bit like the flat, with a small yard in front overgrown with willow-herb and brambles, transferred from the park via the alimentary canals of the local pigeons.

    Some by Fire Pawson, Stuart 1999

  • The back garden was a single, small bomb-crater; heaped clay, statuary and the bricks and glass of ruined greenhouses; dry stalks of willow-herb stood breast high over the mounds.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

  • Once they sought coolness and secrecy among the high cow-parsley and willow-herb of the waste building sites.

    The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

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