WordNet
n. North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes [syn: swamp willow, Salix nigra]
Usage examples of "black willow".
The last of her supply of ground black willow bark and marjoram was in a tiny packet.
There was a clearing there, cut off from the water by a stand of black willow, partly shaded by sycamores.
A stillness seemingly so thick and heavy as to have substance blanketed the black willow brake.
They stood in the cool shadow of a grove of black willow, but the sun was still above the horizon, and the water of the stream glittered like metal.
A rare carnivorous plant, the black willow masked itself as log or tree and preyed on hapless creatures it lulled to sleep beneath its spreading, branchlike tentacles.
And she reverently set the flowers in the crook of a gnarly black willow not far from the eerie outline of the sprawled body, spattered with blood dark as the river water.
Through the mottled windows she now gazed toward the very tree-a black willow-that had sacrificed hundreds of young shoots so that two daughters might grow into proper women.