Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A European willow, sometimes named Salix aquatica, forming a variety of the common sallow, S. Caprea, or if distinct, S. cinerea.
- noun An American acanthaceous plant, Dianthera Americana, an herb 3 feet high, of willow-like aspect, growing in water, having purplish flowers in axillary peduncled spikes.
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Examples
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In a general way, I have a mind as round as a ball, and a character fresh as a water-willow.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880
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Millennial oaks interknotted their roots below its surface, and vouchsafed protection to many a frailer growth of shrub or tree, -- wild orange, water-willow, palmetto, locust, pomegranate, and many trailing tendrilled things, both green and gray.
Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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