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Definition of Common osier
1. Noun. Willow with long flexible twigs used in basketry.
Group relationships: Genus Salix, Salix
Generic synonyms: Osier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Osier
Literary usage of Common osier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Willow beds, but not common. Osier holt between Maidenhead and Windsor, on the
side of the river near Salisbury. T. April, May. » (3) Leaves very entire, ..."
2. An Encyclopædia of Trees and Shrubs: Being the Arboretum Et Fruticetum by John Claudius Loudon (1842)
"... L. The twiggy Willow, or common Osier. Identification. Lin. Sp. PI., 1448. .
F.ng. Fl., 4. p. MS. ; Hook. Br. Fl., ed. 3. ..."
3. Tree-planting for Ornamentation Or Profit, Suitable to Every Soil & Situation by Arthur Roland (1892)
"... Clay injurious to Osiers —Formation of Osier Beds—Small Osiers grown in France—
Mending Osier Plantations—The common osier—The Spaniard— The French—The ..."
4. English Trees and Tree-planting by William H. Ablett (1880)
"The common osier is, however, soft and brittle, and has been superseded by better
kinds, more adapted for the purposes of the basket-maker, many of which ..."
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