salix nigra

1. 1.

   North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes

   Synonymsswamp willowblack willow

   Broaderwillow

   Part ofSalix

Questions about salix nigra

What does salix nigra mean?

salix nigra means "North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes".

What is another word for salix nigra?

Close synonyms include swamp willow, black willow. 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 salix nigra a common word?

salix nigra 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.