willows
- 1Plural of willow.
Willows thrive in the wet soil beside the creek.
Several old willows had to be cut down after the flood.
Note
The plural is a regular -s, and it counts trees (several old willows by the creek) as well as standing for the whole genus Salix: willows grow mainly on moist soils in the cooler north. The wood is willow in the singular, so a basket is made of willow, not willows. The same spelling is the present tense of the verb, as in smoke that willows up from a chimney.
- 2A city in northern California, United States, the seat of Glenn County, once called Willow.
- 3A country district of Queensland, Australia, within its Central Highlands Region.
- 4A housing district within the Canadian city of Saskatoon, in Saskatchewan, known as The Willows.
- 5A small settlement without its own local government in Saskatchewan, Canada, within the municipality called Lake of the Rivers.
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willows is a form of willow
willow, noun: Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs of the genus Salix, in the family Salicaceae, growing mainly on moist soils in the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Full entry
- Forms
- willowwillows plural
- Spelling
- willow → willows: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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