white willow

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   large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark

   SynonymsHuntingdon willowSalix alba

   Broaderwillow

   Part ofSalix

Questions about white willow

What does white willow mean?

white willow means "large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark".

What is another word for white willow?

Close synonyms include Huntingdon willow, Salix alba. 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 white willow a common word?

white 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.