desert willow

1. 1.

   evergreen shrubby tree resembling a willow of dry regions of southwestern North America having showy purplish flowers and long seed pods

   SynonymsChilopsis linearis

   Broadershrub

   Part ofChilopsis

Questions about desert willow

What does desert willow mean?

desert willow means "evergreen shrubby tree resembling a willow of dry regions of southwestern North America having showy purplish flowers and long seed pods".

What is another word for desert willow?

Close synonyms include Chilopsis linearis. 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 desert willow a common word?

desert 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.