willow

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
2. The wood of these trees.
3. (colloquial) A cricket bat.
4. (slang) The baseball bat.
5. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.

Verb

1. To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.
2. To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.

Conceptos

sauce

sauce llorón

Salix

mimbrera

clavellina

mimbrera oscura

salzmimbre

sarga

sarga colorada

sargatillo

sauce americano

sauce blanco

sauce colorado

sauce gigante

sauce negro

sauce-alamo

mimbre

ahuejote

salicáceas

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwɪl.əʊ/

Etimología (Inglés)

From Middle English wilwe, welew, variant of wilghe, from Old English welig, from Proto-West Germanic *wilig, from Proto-Germanic *wiligaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welik- (compare (Arcadian) Ancient Greek ἑλίκη (helíkē), Hittite 𒌑𒂖𒆪 (welku, “grass”)), from *wel- (“twist, turn”).