Salix babylonica : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Salix babylonica	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Salix babylonica
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Salix babylonica n willow with long drooping branches and slender leaves native to China; widely cultivated as an ornamental Synonym(s): weeping willow, Babylonian weeping willow, Salix babylonica
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Weeping \Weep"ing\, a. 1. Grieving; lamenting; shedding tears. [bd]Weeping eyes.[b8] --I. Watts. 2. Discharging water, or other liquid, in drops or very slowly; surcharged with water. [bd]Weeping grounds.[b8] --Mortimer. 3. Having slender, pendent branches; -- said of trees; as, weeping willow; a weeping ash. 4. Pertaining to lamentation, or those who weep. {Weeping cross}, a cross erected on or by the highway, especially for the devotions of penitents; hence, to return by the weeping cross, to return from some undertaking in humiliation or penitence. {Weeping rock}, a porous rock from which water gradually issues. {Weeping sinew}, a ganglion. See {Ganglion}, n., 2. [Colloq.] {Weeping spring}, a spring that discharges water slowly. {Weeping willow} (Bot.), a species of willow ({Salix Babylonica}) whose branches grow very long and slender, and hang down almost perpendicularly.