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BABYLONIAN WEEPING WILLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Babylonian weeping willow mean? 

BABYLONIAN WEEPING WILLOW (noun)
  The noun BABYLONIAN WEEPING WILLOW has 1 sense:

1. willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamentalplay

  Familiarity information: BABYLONIAN WEEPING WILLOW used as a noun is very rare.


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BABYLONIAN WEEPING WILLOW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Babylonian weeping willow; Salix babylonica; weeping willow

Hypernyms ("Babylonian weeping willow" is a kind of...):

willow; willow tree (any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix)

Holonyms ("Babylonian weeping willow" is a member of...):

genus Salix; Salix (a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows)


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