Usually means: Tree with slender, drooping branches.
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General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. willow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. willow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Willow, willow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. willow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. willow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Willow, willow: Wordnik
  7. willow (tree): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Willow: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Willow, willow: Wiktionary
  10. willow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. willow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. willow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. willow: Dictionary.com
  14. willow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. willow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Willow (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Willow (Capcom arcade game), Willow (Chinese constellation), Willow (NES), Willow (PAT station), Willow (TV channel), Willow (album), Willow (arcade game), Willow (comics), Willow (creeping), Willow (disambiguation), Willow (film), Willow (typeface), Willow (video game), Willow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Willow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. willow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. willow: Rhymezone
  20. Willow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. willow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Willow: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. willow: Free Dictionary
  24. willow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Willow, willow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Willow: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Willow: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  3. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. willow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. willow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Willow: Beauty & Health Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
noun:  The wood of these trees.
noun:  (cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat.
noun:  (baseball, slang, 1800s) The baseball bat.
noun:  A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
verb:  (transitive) To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.
noun:  A female given name from English of modern usage.
noun:  A census-designated place in Alaska
noun:  A town in Oklahoma
noun:  A town in Wisconsin

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