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Meanings of purple willow in English

Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin.

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        Examples for "red willow"
        Examples for "red willow"
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        He then sent the children out to get red willow sticks.
        The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and All...
        2
        He stuffed his pipe again with fine tobacco and bark of red willow and began.
        The Trail Book
        3
        She planted near the statue a rose- red willow.
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        4
        When the rabbits were cooked, he cut some red willow brush and laid them on it to cool.
        Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
        5
        He sat squat whittling away at kin-a-kin-ic, or the bark of the red willow, the hunter's free tobacco.
        The Canadian Commonwealth
        1
        The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like.
        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858 / A Magazine ...
        2
        Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
        The Lady of Blossholme
        3
        Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
        Over Prairie Trails
        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.
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        5
        C. STOLONIFERA.-RedOsier Dogwood.
        Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
        1
        I planted the main stock in that corner, then put about a hundred twigs in the swamp for basket willow.
        Half a Century
        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.
        The Mysterious Island
        Usage of purple willow in English
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        A purple willow plume would make Mario Doro look sophisticated.
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