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willow

/ˈwɪloʊ/ sustantivo B2

En español: sauce, mimbrera, sauz

  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. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The wood of these trees. (countable, uncountable)
  3. A cricket bat. (colloquial, countable, uncountable)
  4. The baseball bat. (countable, slang, uncountable)
  5. A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads. (countable, uncountable)

Plural willows

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Very green and neat and precise was that yard, set about on one side with great patriarchal willows and on the other with prim Lombardies.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 4 · C1
It was encircled by huge old willows and tall firs, beneath which flourished flowers that loved the shade.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 83 · C1
First of all Carrie Sloane dared Ruby Gillis to climb to a certain point in the huge old willow tree before the front door; which Ruby Gillis, albeit in mortal dread of the fat green caterpillars with which said tree was infested and with the fear of her mother before her eyes if she should tear her new muslin dress, nimbly did, to the discomfiture of the aforesaid Carrie Sloane.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 173 · C1
Monte Cristo looked for the entrance to the enclosure, and was not long in finding a little wooden gate, working on willow hinges, and fastened with a nail and string.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 642 · C1

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