The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pussy \Pussy\, n. [Dim. of puss.]
A pet name for a cat; also, an endearing name for a girl.
A catkin of the pussy willow.
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The game of tipcat; -- also called pussy cat.
Pussy willow (Bot.), any kind of willow having large cylindrical catkins clothed with long glossy hairs, especially the American Salix discolor; -- called also glaucous willow, and swamp willow.
WordNet
n. North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes [syn: black willow, Salix nigra]
Usage examples of "swamp willow".
Large, hoary old trees, black cypress and dark swamp willow, twisted up out of the muck, looming, barring the morning light, their warped roots gnarling down out of sight into the slime-laden mud.
The flats that spread between him and that wide expanse of water were covered with clumps of swamp willow and a kind of coarse stiff grass whose tall serrated blades looked sharp and forbidding even at this distance.