Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin.
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Examples for "purple willow "
Examples for "purple willow "
1 A purple willow plume would make Mario Doro look sophisticated.
1 He then sent the children out to get red willow sticks.
2 He stuffed his pipe again with fine tobacco and bark of red willow and began.
3 She planted near the statue a rose- red willow .
4 When the rabbits were cooked, he cut some red willow brush and laid them on it to cool.
5 He sat squat whittling away at kin-a-kin-ic, or the bark of the red willow , the hunter's free tobacco.
1 The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier , shrubby willows or sallows, and the like.
2 Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
3 Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
4 From my own pasture fence-line will come red osier , dogwood, with its white blooms, its blue berries, its winter stem-coloring, and elderberry.
5 C. STOLONIFERA.-RedOsier Dogwood.
1 At the point of the lake which projected to the north, they had discovered an osier-bed in which grew a large number of purple osiers .
1 I planted the main stock in that corner, then put about a hundred twigs in the swamp for basket willow .
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