Did you mayhaps mean willpower?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several flowering plants in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.
Etymologies
- willow + herb (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In the waste ground by the edge of Hollingside wood tall spikes of rosebay willowherb, tipped with the last of their purple flowers, were releasing their downy seeds.”
“Then, with my senses as tickled as those of the forest bug, I had to turn away to groom willowherb cotton from my face.”
“A forest bug, its angular armour trailing white down as it blundered among the seed pods, paused to groom willowherb cotton from its antennae.”
“In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak.”
“Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury.”
“Patches of willowherb suggest the acid soil of places where fire has left behind charcoal and wood ash.”
“Stony river shores are widespread, clothed only by pioneer species like willowherb Chamaenerion latifolium.”
“As I understand it, there is a native species of rosebay willowherb and a North American species.”
“Forests of Rosebay willowherb usually thrown in for nowt, as well.”
“Her calf nosed a clump of willowherb, waiting for her to finish.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘willowherb’.
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Reading Reading
Words from the works of Peter Reading - at least one from each (except the Schwitters-esque erosions, cut-ups etc).
overbright, pimpled, muskiness, effuse, stoup, maul, unlevel, viscid, perfidious, glibly, aloes, drouth and 449 more...
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epopticamarie's list
li mortacci tua, hebei, foucault, adramelech, demon, corpse candle, kist o' whistles, marred, aesir, asgard, choice, sley and 12 more...
Tweets
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yarb On top of us
coiffures of willowherb fleece puff their last
uphill.
In Castle Gardens fermenting
mulch in September, honey fumes throb
a mirage of clipped lobelia beds
where we loll and, ungrudgingly, limp with stooks
too long left on fields beyond Broad Street, brown
and burn out.
- Peter Reading, For the Municipality's Elderly, from For the Municipality's Elderly, 1974 Jun 22, 2008