Willow vs. Withered

Willownoun

Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.

Witheredadjective

Shrivelled, shrunken or faded, especially due to lack of water.

Willownoun

The wood of these trees.

Witheredverb

simple past tense and past participle of wither

Willownoun

A cricket bat.

Witheredadjective

Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away.

Willownoun

The baseball bat.

Witheredadjective

lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness;

‘the old woman's shriveled skin’; ‘he looked shriveled and ill’; ‘a shrunken old man’; ‘a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws’; ‘he did well despite his withered arm’; ‘a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair’;

Willownoun

A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.

Witheredadjective

(used especially of vegetation) having lost all moisture;

‘dried-up grass’; ‘the desert was edged with sere vegetation’; ‘shriveled leaves on the unwatered seedlings’; ‘withered vines’;

Willowverb

(transitive) To open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.

Withered

Withered is an American extreme metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, founded by Mike Thompson and Chris Freeman. Both members also participate in a crust punk/grindcore band Social Infestation, which also features Mastodon bassist Troy Sanders.

Willowverb

(intransitive) To form a shape or move in a way similar to the long, slender branches of a willow.

Willownoun

Any tree or shrub of the genus Salix, including many species, most of which are characterized often used as an emblem of sorrow, desolation, or desertion. "A wreath of willow to show my forsaken plight." Sir W. Scott. Hence, a lover forsaken by, or having lost, the person beloved, is said to wear the willow.

‘And I must wear the willow garlandFor him that's dead or false to me.’;

Willownoun

A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; - probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil.

Willowverb

To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.

Willownoun

any of numerous deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Salix

Willownoun

a textile machine having a system of revolving spikes for opening and cleaning raw textile fibers

Willow

Willows, also called sallows and osiers, form the genus Salix, are around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Most species are known as willow, but some narrow-leaved shrub species are called osier, and some broader-leaved species are referred to as sallow (from Old English sealh, related to the Latin word salix, willow).