SALIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salix mean? 

• SALIX (noun)
  The noun SALIX has 1 sense:

1. a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows

  Familiarity information: SALIX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Salix; Salix

Hypernyms ("Salix" is a kind of...):

hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Salix"):

bay willow; laurel willow; Salix pentandra (European willow tree with shining leathery leaves; widely naturalized in the eastern United States)

brittle willow; crack willow; Salix fragilis; snap willow (large willow tree with stiff branches that are easily broken)

prairie willow; Salix humilis (slender shrubby willow of dry areas of North America)

dwarf willow; Salix herbacea (widely distributed boreal shrubby willow with partially underground creeping stems and bright green glossy leaves)

gray willow; grey willow; Salix cinerea (Eurasian shrubby willow with whitish tomentose twigs)

arroyo willow; Salix lasiolepis (shrubby willow of the western United States)

Salix lucida; shining willow (common North American shrub with shiny lanceolate leaves)

black willow; Salix nigra; swamp willow (North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes)

hoary willow; sage willow; Salix candida (North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves)

basket willow; purple osier; purple willow; red osier; red willow; Salix purpurea (Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin)

balsam willow; Salix pyrifolia (small shrubby tree of eastern North America having leaves exuding an odor of balsam when crushed)

creeping willow; Salix repens (small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated)

Salix sitchensis; silky willow; Sitka willow (small shrubby tree of western North America (Alaska to Oregon))

dwarf gray willow; dwarf grey willow; sage willow; Salix tristis (willow shrub of dry places in the eastern United States having long narrow leaves canescent beneath)

bearberry willow; Salix uva-ursi (dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of Arctic and alpine regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base)

common osier; hemp willow; Salix viminalis; velvet osier (willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry)

almond willow; black Hollander; Salix amygdalina; Salix triandra (Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry)

almond-leaves willow; peach-leaved willow; peachleaf willow; Salix amygdaloides (willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees)

florist's willow; goat willow; pussy willow; Salix caprea (much-branched Old World willow having large catkins and relatively large broad leaves)

sallow (any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal)

pussy willow; Salix discolor (small willow of eastern North America having greyish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves)

Salix blanda; Salix pendulina; Salix pendulina blanda; Wisconsin weeping willow (hybrid willow usually not strongly weeping in habit)

Babylonian weeping willow; Salix babylonica; weeping willow (willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental)

arctic willow; Salix arctica (low creeping shrub of Arctic Europe and America)

cricket-bat willow; Salix alba caerulea (Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches)

golden willow; Salix alba vitellina; Salix vitellina (European willow having greyish leaves and yellow-orange twigs used in basketry)

Salix alba sericea; Salix sericea; silky willow; silver willow (North American willow with greyish silky pubescent leaves that usually blacken in drying)

Huntingdon willow; Salix alba; white willow (large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark)

osier (any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture)

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

Holonyms ("Salix" is a member of...):

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)