The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weeping willow \Weep"ing wil"low\ (Bot.) a tree ( Salix babylonica) of the willow family with slender leaves, native to China, whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly. It grows best where soil is moist, as by the banks of streams and is widely cultivated as an ornamental tree.
Syn: Babylonian weeping willow. [PJC]
Willow \Wil"low\, n. [OE. wilowe, wilwe, AS. wilig, welig; akin to OD. wilge, D. wilg, LG. wilge. Cf. Willy.]
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(Bot.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. ``A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight.''
--Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.And I must wear the willow garland For him that's dead or false to me.
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(Textile Manuf.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil. Almond willow, Pussy willow, Weeping willow. (Bot.) See under Almond, Pussy, and Weeping. Willow biter (Zo["o]l.) the blue tit. [Prov. Eng.] Willow fly (Zo["o]l.), a greenish European stone fly ( Chloroperla viridis); -- called also yellow Sally. Willow gall (Zo["o]l.), a conical, scaly gall produced on willows by the larva of a small dipterous fly ( Cecidomyia strobiloides). Willow grouse (Zo["o]l.), the white ptarmigan. See ptarmigan. Willow lark (Zo["o]l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] Willow ptarmigan (Zo["o]l.)
The European reed bunting, or black-headed bunting. See under Reed.
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A sparrow ( Passer salicicolus) native of Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe.
Willow tea, the prepared leaves of a species of willow largely grown in the neighborhood of Shanghai, extensively used by the poorer classes of Chinese as a substitute for tea.
--McElrath.Willow thrush (Zo["o]l.), a variety of the veery, or Wilson's thrush. See Veery.
Willow warbler (Zo["o]l.), a very small European warbler ( Phylloscopus trochilus); -- called also bee bird, haybird, golden wren, pettychaps, sweet William, Tom Thumb, and willow wren.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (vern Peking willow pedia=1), (taxlink Salix babylonica species noshow=1), with pendulous branches, native to China. 2 Any of the numerous decorative cultivars and hybrids of ''Salix babylonica'' (with white willow ((taxlink Salix alba species noshow=1)) or crack willow ((taxlink Salix fragilis species noshow=1)).
WordNet
n. willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental [syn: Babylonian weeping willow, Salix babylonica]
Wikipedia
"Weeping Willow" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on November 8, 2006. In the episode, a teenage blogger nicknamed WeepingWillow17, played by guest star Michelle Trachtenberg, is apparently kidnapped during the filming of one of her Internet videos. Detectives Mike Logan and Megan Wheeler investigate the so-called "cyber-kidnapping", which they and the public speculate may be an elaborate Internet hoax.
The episode and character was written by Stephanie Sengupta and Warren Leight, and directed by Tom DiCillo. The story and the WeepingWillow17 character were inspired by the lonelygirl15 video blogs on YouTube, which were originally believed the works of a real-life 15-year-old blogger, but were eventually discovered to be a professionally filmed hoax. The episode received generally positive reviews and, according to Nielsen ratings, was seen by 9.8 million households the week it aired, the most viewership for a Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode in six weeks.
"Weeping Willow" is a 1903 classic piano ragtime composition by Scott Joplin. It was one of Joplin's simpler and less famous ragtime scores, written during a transitional period in his life, and one of the few pieces that Joplin cut as a piano roll in a 1916 session.
Weeping Willow ( Tr: Salkım Söğüt) is a 2014 Turkish animated short film directed by Ethem Onur Bilgiç, and produced by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
Usage examples of "weeping willow".
Over his mail he wore a soiled white surcoat with a weeping willow embroidered in pale green, but his cloak was fastened with a silver trout.
Dressed in his ceremonial robe, the Abbot stood over the twin graves, at the foot of which two weeping willow saplings had been transplanted.
Jamie saw them, too, and pulled strongly for the far side, bringing us to rest against a shelving gravel bank, in a pool formed by the roots of a weeping willow.
At the age of fourteen, she had received her first kiss, standing with Sammy Somebody there in the shadow of the weeping willow.
Of meadowgrass and riverflags, the bulrush and waterweed, and of fallen griefs of weeping willow.
Once there he settled himself on his favourite bench of curved stone, set beneath a tall weeping willow.
Beside the moon-silvered veils of an enormous weeping willow, the band paused to rest and discuss their situation.