willow tree
Noun
Meaning
willow tree (plural willow trees)
A tree of the genus Salix.
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Examples
What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.
Grapes do not grow in a willow tree.
A confused man is like the drowning man who asks for pears from the willow tree.
In about 1635, the Flemish chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont thought he had proved water to be the essential element from his famous five years' experiment with a willow tree grown with only the addition of rainwater.
It had so many things that hooked me as a child (and still do, honestly): a huge crazy house perched in a towering willow tree, a lovable hermit and her genius dog, visiting bears, witty illustrations, and a rhyming text in which the meter actually works.
It's closer to a palm tree than a willow tree this time,"