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.