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单词 water willow
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water willown.

Brit. /ˈwɔːtə ˌwɪləʊ/, U.S. /ˈwɔdər ˌwɪloʊ/, /ˈwɑdər ˌwɪloʊ/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: water n., willow n.
Etymology: < water n. + willow n. Compare Dutch waterwilg kind of willow (16th cent.).
1. Any willow (genus Salix) that typically grows close to water, as (in Europe) the osier, S. viminalis, and white willow, S. alba, and (in North America) black willow, S. nigra.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > willow and allies > [noun] > other types of willow
red willow1547
water willow1583
goat's willow1597
rose willow1597
sweet willow1597
French willow1601
siler1607
palm-withy1609
sallowie1610
swallowtail willow1626
willow bay1650
black willow1670
crack-willow1670
grey willow1697
water sallow1761
almond willowa1763
swallow-tailed willow1764
swamp willow1765
golden osier1772
golden willow1772
purple willow1773
sand-willow1786
goat willow1787
purple osier1797
whipcord1812
Arctic willow1818
sage-willow1846
pussy willow1851
Kilmarnock willow1854
sweet-bay willow1857
pussy1858
palm willow1869
Spaniard1871
ground-willow1875
Spanish willow1875
snap-willow1880
diamond willow1884
sandbar willow1884
pussy palm1886
creeping willow1894
bat-willow1907
cricket bat willow1907
silver willow1914
1583 L. Mascall tr. Profitable Bk. Spottes & Staines 8 Ye shall take off the water willow boughes, and make ashes therof.
1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. xv. 253 The stalkes..wil twist and writhe as doth the Ozier or water willow.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) sig. Bbbb/1 Osier, the red or Water-willow, the Twigs of which serve to make Wicker-baskets.
1769 tr. J. de Bondt Acct. Dis. E. Indies iii. 225 Its branches stretch farther out, like our water-willow.
1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 15 295 The steam-boat broke through boughs of the water-willow in her progress.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week on Concord & Merrimack Rivers (1862) 48 The water willow, salix Purshiana, when it is of large size and entire, is the most graceful and ethereal of our trees.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 179 Salix helix. Water willow. Common on the margins of our gravel-bedded burns and rivers.
1886 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Water Willow. Salix rubra, Hudson.
1933 Ecol. Monogr. 3 189 The plants requiring soil water at their roots include..Salix exigua Nutt. Water Willow.
1954 Sewage & Industr. Wastes 26 256/1 The water willow (osier) also is grown extensively on sewage farms, not only because it is a valuable crop..but especially because it has the property of absorbing large quantities of water.
2006 J. D. Janse Phytobacteriol. i. 20 (caption) Watermark disease of water willow (Salix alba).
2.
a. Either of two herbaceous perennials of moist soils having willow-like leaves and purplish flowers: rosebay willowherb or fireweed, Chamerion angustifolium, and purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria. Cf. willow-herb n. Obsolete.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > loosestrife and allied flowers
loosestrife1548
purple loosestrife1548
red loosestrife1548
red lysimachus1578
spiked or purple-spiked willow-herb1578
withy-herb1578
water willow1585
willow-wort1731
willow weed1866
swamp loosestrife-
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 130/2 Lysimachium, salicaria,..willow herbe, or loose strife, waterwillow.
a1654 N. Culpeper tr. J. Prevost Medicaments for Poor (1656) 323 The flowers of the purple water Willow [etc.], may be found in most places.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Water-Willow, an Herb otherwise call'd Loose-strife.
1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ Lysimachia, willow herb, or loose strife, water willow.
b. Chiefly North American. Either of two herbaceous perennials that typically grow in shallow water at stream or pond margins: (a) (more fully American water willow) Justicia americana (family Acanthaceae); (b) swamp loosestrife, Decodon verticillatus (family Lythraceae). Also: any other plant of the genus Justicia, found mainly in tropical and subtropical America.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants
sea-purslane1548
frog-bit1578
heartwort1578
milkwort1578
water dragon1578
water-liverwort1578
water milfoil1578
water milfoil1578
water radish1578
arrowhead1597
saltwort1597
water archer1597
calla1601
water-rocket1605
sea rocket1611
water archer1617
water chickweed1633
water purslane1633
arsesmart1640
water hyssop1653
water thyme1655
water serpent1659
Myriophyllum1754
least water plantain1756
mud-weed1756
Thalia1756
water-leaf1756
marsh liverwort1760
bastard plantain1762
wool-weed1765
Ruppia1770
goat's foot1773
pipewort1776
blinking chickweed1777
mudwort1789
arrowleaf1805
water-target1814
water willow1814
felwort1816
water shield1817
mermaid weed1822
mud plantain1822
hydrilla1824
blinks1835
crystalwort1846
naiad1846
waterwort1846
arrow weed1848
willow-thorn1857
lattice leaf1866
marsh flower1866
bonnet1869
lattice plant1877
sea-ash1884
alligator weed1887
water parsley1891
water hyacinth1897
lirio1926
neverwet1927
1814 F. Pursh Flora Amer. Septentrionalis I. 13 Dianthera americana..Water-willow. In bays and slow-flowing waters.
1829 A. Eaton Bot. (ed. 5) 265 Justicia pedunculosa, water willow.
1912 Mycologia 4 66 The water willow, Dianthera americana, growing along a small creek..has been affected with a disease.
1939 Ecol. Monogr. 9 501 At the water's edge there is a discontinuous zone of wild rice (Zizania aquatica L.) and water willow (Decodon verticillatus (L.) Ell.).
2008 Southeastern Naturalist 7 641 Substrate included cobble, gravel, and boulder, with American Water Willow along gravel bars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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water willow
water willow n.
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1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1203 Salix aquatica. The Oziar, or water Willow.
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