weeping willow

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Noun

weeping willow (plural weeping willows)

1. A decorative variety of willow tree with especially pendulous branches.

Usage notes

The term weeping willow is used of a cultivar of Peking willow (Salix babylonica) as well as of its hybrids with white willow (Salix alba) or crack willow (Salix fragilis).

Translations

tree

• Afrikaans: treurwilg (af)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 垂柳 (cmn) (chuíliǔ)

• Dutch: treurwilg (nl) m
• Esperanto: plorema saliko (eo)
• Finnish: itkupaju (fi), itkuraita (fi)
• French: saule pleureur (fr) m
• German: Trauerweide (de) f
• Greek: ιτιά η κλαίουσα (el) (itiá i kléussa) f
• Hungarian: szomorúfűz (hu)
• Italian: salice piangente (it) m

• Japanese: 枝垂柳 (ja), シダレヤナギ (ja) (shidareyanagi)
• Korean: 실버들 (ko) (sil-beodeul), 수양버들 (ko) (suyang-beodeul)
• Polish: wierzba płacząca (pl) f
• Portuguese: chorão (pt) m, salgueiro-chorão (pt) m
• Russian: плакучая ива (ru) (plakúčaja íva) f
• Serbo-Croatian: žalosna vrba (sh) f
• Slovak: smutná vŕba f
• Spanish: sauce llorón m
• Volapük: lügasalig (vo)

Synonyms

• Peking willow