salix purpurea

Questions about salix purpurea

What does salix purpurea mean?

salix purpurea means "Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin".

What is another word for salix purpurea?

Close synonyms include purple willow, red willow, red osier, basket willow, purple osier. 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 purpurea a common word?

salix purpurea 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.