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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various willows with long slender drooping branches, especially the Chinese species Salix babylonica and its hybrids, widely cultivated as ornamentals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Bot.) a tree (
Salix babylonica ) of the willow family with slender leaves, native to China, whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly. It grows best where soil is moist, as by the banks of streams and is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A decorative variety of
willow tree with especiallypendulous branches.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental
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ruzuzu commented on the word weeping willow
"I caught a glimpse of his dark tormented face. He had what we used to call a 'weeping willow' mustache."
--Theophilus North by Thornton Wilder
September 7, 2010