arctic willow

1. 1.

   low creeping shrub of Arctic Europe and America

   SynonymsSalix arctica

   Broaderwillow

   Part ofSalix

Questions about arctic willow

What does arctic willow mean?

arctic willow means "low creeping shrub of Arctic Europe and America".

What is another word for arctic willow?

Close synonyms include Salix arctica. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arctic willow a common word?

arctic willow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.