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Definition of Goat willow
1. Noun. Much-branched Old World willow having large catkins and relatively large broad leaves.
Group relationships: Genus Salix, Salix
Generic synonyms: Sallow
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goat Willow
Literary usage of Goat willow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"The Goat-willow is the one generally used forthe stock of the artificial ...
The growth of shoots from these stocks is rendering the Goat-willow quite ..."
2. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"... but are called by different names. Of these we must speak. The goat-willow is
of shrubby habit and like the chaste- tree : its leaf resembles that leaf ..."
3. Workshop Receipts by Ernest Spon, Robert Haldane, Charles George Warnford Lock (1889)
"Nature, indeed, spontaneously suggests this application ; for the goat- willow,
or sallow (Salix caprea), may often be found indigenous in moist ground, ..."
4. Ornamental Shrubs of the United States (hardy, Cultivated) by Austin Craig Apgar (1910)
"A plant often used as stock upon which to graft other willows to make such weeping
trees as the Kil- marnock willows. goat willow (576) — Salix ..."
5. The Wild Garden: Or the Naturalization and Natural Grouping of Hardy Exotic by William Robinson (1903)
"The earliest flowering British Willow is what is called the goat willow, or '
pussies' by the children in spring. Next in importance is the Crack Willow or ..."
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