Osier

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several willows having long rodlike twigs used in basketry, especially the Eurasian Salix viminalis and S. purpurea.
  • n. A twig of one of these trees.
  • n. Any of various similar or related trees.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A kind of willow, Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
  • n. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the willows for basket work. The name is sometimes given to any kind of willow.
  • n. One of the long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
  • adj. Made of osiers; composed of, or containing, osiers.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One of various species of willow (Salix) whose tough flexible branches are employed for wickerwork, withes, etc.
  • Made or consisting of willow or other shoots or twigs.
  • n. Either the round-leaved dogwood, Cornus circinata, or the alternate-leaved dogwood, C. alternifolia, the twigs of which are green.
  • n. Leucothoe racemosa, an ornamental shrub of the eastern United States with racemes of waxy white flowers borne on the under side of recurved racemes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. flexible twig of a willow tree
  • n. any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture
  • Equivalent
    osier holt   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    withy    withe   
    Cross Reference
    purple osier    red osier    white    green osier   
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