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Meanings of red osier in English
Common North American shrub with reddish purple twigs and white flowers.
Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin.
Synonyms
Examples for "purple willow"
Examples for "purple willow"
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A purple willow plume would make Mario Doro look sophisticated.
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He then sent the children out to get red willow sticks.
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He stuffed his pipe again with fine tobacco and bark of red willow and began.
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She planted near the statue a rose- red willow.
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When the rabbits were cooked, he cut some red willow brush and laid them on it to cool.
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He sat squat whittling away at kin-a-kin-ic, or the bark of the red willow, the hunter's free tobacco.
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I planted the main stock in that corner, then put about a hundred twigs in the swamp for basket willow.
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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.
Usage of red osier in English
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The immediate shores were also densely covered with the speckled alder, red osier, shrubby willows or sallows, and the like.
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Before I had done with it my ribs showed through my skin and my back was like a red osier basket.
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Again the speckled trunks of the balm poplars struck my eye, now interspersed with the scarlet stems of the red osier dogwood.
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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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C. STOLONIFERA.-RedOsier Dogwood.