gray willow

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   Eurasian shrubby willow with whitish tomentose twigs

   Synonymsgrey willowSalix cinerea

   Broaderwillow

   Part ofSalix

Questions about gray willow

What does gray willow mean?

gray willow means "Eurasian shrubby willow with whitish tomentose twigs".

What is another word for gray willow?

Close synonyms include grey willow, Salix cinerea. 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 gray willow a common word?

gray 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.