WILLOW TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does willow tree mean? 

• WILLOW TREE (noun)
  The noun WILLOW TREE has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WILLOW TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

willow; willow tree

Hypernyms ("willow tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "willow tree"):

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

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)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

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)

Holonyms ("willow tree" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

A stilbenoid phenol, originally isolated from the bark of the African bush willow tree Combretum caffrum, with vascular disrupting and antineoplastic activities.

(Combretastatin, NCI Thesaurus)