Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Epilobium, so named from the willow-like leaves of E. angustifolium, the great willow-herb.
- noun See
Lythrum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A perennial herb (
Epilobium spicatum ) with narrow willowlike leaves and showy rose-purple flowers. The name is sometimes made to include other species of the same genus. - noun a perennial herb (
Lythrum Salicaria ) with willowy leaves and spiked purplish flowers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a plant of the genus Epilobium having pink or yellow flowers and seeds with silky hairs
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Examples
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Now is the time for the towering spikes of purple foxgloves and pink rosebay willow-herb.
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Then my quarry settled on a down-covered stem, deep inside the willow-herb thicket.
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• If any poet deserves to have his statue in a railway station, I feel that Edward Thomas does in Adlestrop Editorial, 28 January, except that no doubt willow-herb and grass and meadowsweet have long ago completely taken over.
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And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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And the bombed sites where the plaster dust swirled in the air and the willow-herb straggled over the heaps of rubble; and the places where the bombs had cleared a larger patch and there had sprung up sordid colonies of wooden dwellings like chicken-houses?
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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Rosebay willow-herb (Epilobium angustifolium) (another Ninja)
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And up he went through the transfigured tangles of the willow-herb and the uncut seeding grass of the farther bank.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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It was the end one of a Victorian terrace, a bit like the flat, with a small yard in front overgrown with willow-herb and brambles, transferred from the park via the alimentary canals of the local pigeons.
Some by Fire Pawson, Stuart 1999
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The back garden was a single, small bomb-crater; heaped clay, statuary and the bricks and glass of ruined greenhouses; dry stalks of willow-herb stood breast high over the mounds.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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Once they sought coolness and secrecy among the high cow-parsley and willow-herb of the waste building sites.
The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998
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