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Definition of Salix alba
1. Noun. Large willow tree of Eurasia and North Africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark.
Group relationships: Genus Salix, Salix
Generic synonyms: Willow, Willow Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Salix Alba
Literary usage of Salix alba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principal Species of Wood: Their Characteristic Properties by Charles Henry Snow (1908)
"White Willow (Salix alba), naturalized in America, is very hardy even in dry places.
A valuable prairie wind-brake. Trees planted several feet apart from ..."
2. On Buds and Stipules by John Lubbock (1899)
"The winter-buds of the White Willow (Salix alba) are all axillary; the terminal
one, as well as the tip of every shoot, dies. The buds are oblong, ..."
3. On Buds and Stipules by John Lubbock (1899)
"The winter-buds of the White Willow (Salix alba) are all axillary ; the terminal
one, as well as the tip of every shoot, dies. The buds are oblong, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1896)
"Salix alba L. Sp. PI. 1021. 1753. A large tree, sometimes 90° tall and a trunk
... Salix alba vitellina (I,.) Koch, Dendr. 2:512. 1869. GOLDEN OSIER. ..."
5. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"I have examined the structure of the wood in Populus trémula, L., P. nigra,
L., Salix alba, L., and S. purpurea, L. The medullary rays are narrow, ..."
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