CREEPING WILLOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creeping willow mean? 

• CREEPING WILLOW (noun)
  The noun CREEPING WILLOW has 1 sense:

1. small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated

  Familiarity information: CREEPING WILLOW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREEPING WILLOW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small trailing bush of Europe and Asia having straggling branches with silky green leaves of which several varieties are cultivated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

creeping willow; Salix repens

Hypernyms ("creeping willow" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("creeping willow" is a member of...):

genus Salix; Salix (a large and widespread genus varying in size from small shrubs to large trees: willows)