purple willow

Questions about purple willow

What is another word for purple willow?

It depends which purple willow you mean. In the sense “Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin”, the synonyms are red willow, red osier, basket willow, purple osier, Salix purpurea. Across all 1 sense there are 5 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of purple willow?

WordNet records no antonym for purple willow. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for purple willow come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of purple willow

• Full entry for purple willowAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for purple willowWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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