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sea-willow
†1. The sea-buckthorn. Obs. rare—1.
1548Turner Names of Herbes (E.D.S.) 41 Halimus..may be called in englishe sea wyllowe or prickwylowe because it hath the leaues of a wylowe and prickes lyke a thorne.
b. The papyrus or paper-reed, biblus.
1807Robinson Archæol. Græca iv. xv. 416 The ancient Greeks..preferred cables of rushes or sea-willow. [Odyss. xxi. 391 ὄπλον νεὸς ἀµϕιελίσσης βύβλινον.]
2. A gorgoniaceous polyp.
1755J. Ellis Corallines 68 Sea-willow. a1776― Zoophytes (1786) 89 Gorgonia anceps. Sea-Willow Gorgon. |