SALIX

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Salix mean? 

• SALIX (noun)
  The noun SALIX has 1 sense:

1. a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows

  Familiarity information: SALIX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALIX (noun)

Meaning:

A large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Salix; Salix

Hypernyms ("Salix" is a kind of...):

hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Salix"):

prairie willow; Salix humilis (slender shrubby willow of dry areas of North America)

dwarf willow; Salix herbacea (widely distributed boreal shrubby willow with partially underground creeping stems and bright green glossy leaves)

gray willow; grey willow; Salix cinerea (Eurasian shrubby willow with whitish tomentose twigs)

arroyo willow; Salix lasiolepis (shrubby willow of the western United States)

Salix lucida; shining willow (common North American shrub with shiny lanceolate leaves)

black willow; Salix nigra; swamp willow (North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes)

bay willow; laurel willow; Salix pentandra (European willow tree with shining leathery leaves; widely naturalized in the eastern United States)

basket willow; purple osier; purple willow; red osier; red willow; Salix purpurea (Eurasian osier having reddish or purple twigs and bark rich in tannin)

balsam willow; Salix pyrifolia (small shrubby tree of eastern North America having leaves exuding an odor of balsam when crushed)

creeping willow; Salix repens (small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated)

Salix sitchensis; silky willow; Sitka willow (small shrubby tree of western North America (Alaska to Oregon))

dwarf gray willow; dwarf grey willow; sage willow; Salix tristis (willow shrub of dry places in the eastern United States having long narrow leaves canescent beneath)

bearberry willow; Salix uva-ursi (dwarf prostrate mat-forming shrub of arctic and alpine regions of North America and Greenland having deep green elliptic leaves that taper toward the base)

brittle willow; crack willow; Salix fragilis; snap willow (large willow tree with stiff branches that are easily broken)

hoary willow; sage willow; Salix candida (North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves)

almond willow; black Hollander; Salix amygdalina; Salix triandra (Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry)

willow; willow tree (any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix)

osier (any of various willows having pliable twigs used in basketry and furniture)

Huntingdon willow; Salix alba; white willow (large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark)

Salix alba sericea; Salix sericea; silky willow; silver willow (North American willow with greyish silky pubescent leaves that usually blacken in drying)

golden willow; Salix alba vitellina; Salix vitellina (European willow having greyish leaves and yellow-orange twigs used in basketry)

cricket-bat willow; Salix alba caerulea (Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches)

arctic willow; Salix arctica (low creeping shrub of arctic Europe and America)

Babylonian weeping willow; Salix babylonica; weeping willow (willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental)

Salix blanda; Salix pendulina; Salix pendulina blanda; Wisconsin weeping willow (hybrid willow usually not strongly weeping in habit)

pussy willow; Salix discolor (small willow of eastern North America having greyish leaves and silky catkins that come before the leaves)

sallow (any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and charcoal)

florist's willow; goat willow; pussy willow; Salix caprea (much-branched Old World willow having large catkins and relatively large broad leaves)

almond-leaves willow; peach-leaved willow; peachleaf willow; Salix amygdaloides (willow of the western United States with leaves like those of peach or almond trees)

common osier; hemp willow; Salix viminalis; velvet osier (willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry)

Holonyms ("Salix" is a member of...):

family Salicaceae; Salicaceae; willow family (two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus)