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Sea Willow :: Sea willow () A gorgonian coral with long flexible branches.

Water Willow :: Water willow () An American aquatic plant (Dianthera Americana) with long willowlike leaves, and spikes of small purplish flowers..

Willock :: Willock (n.) The common guillemot.

Willock :: Willock (n.) The puffin.

Willow :: Willow (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight. Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow..

Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..

Willow :: Willow (v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2..

Willow-herb :: Willow-herb (n.) 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.

Willow-thorn :: Willow-thorn (n.) A thorny European shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) resembling a willow.

Willow-weed :: Willow-weed (n.) A European species of loosestrife (Lysimachia vulgaris).

Willow-weed :: Willow-weed (n.) Any kind of Polygonum with willowlike foliage.

Willow-wort :: Willow-wort (n.) Same as Willow-weed.

Willow-wort :: Willow-wort (n.) Any plant of the order Salicaceae, or the Willow family..

Willowed :: Willowed (a.) Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows.

Willower :: Willower (n.) A willow. See Willow, n., 2..

Willowish :: Willowish (a.) Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy.

Willowy :: Willowy (a.) Abounding with willows.

Willowy :: Willowy (a.) Resembling a willow; pliant; flexible; pendent; drooping; graceful.