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Withe

A flexible, slender twig or branch used as a band; a willow or osier twig; a withy.

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Band 76% connected

A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or con…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Branchlet 76% connected

A little branch; a twig.

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Sprig 76% connected

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Twig 76% connected

To twitch; to pull; to tweak.

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Osier 76% connected

A kind of willow (Salix viminalis) growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America. It is considered the best of the will…

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Withy 92% connected

The osier willow (Salix viminalis). See Osier, n. (a).

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adventitious root noun · 78% connection

root growing in an unusual location e.g. from a stem

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Apomict noun · 78% connection

a plant that reproduces or is reproduced by apomixis

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Archespore noun · 78% connection

primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

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Belt noun · 78% connection

A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

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Branch noun · 78% connection

Any division extending like a branch; any arm or part connected with the main body of thing; ramification; as, the branch of an antler…

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Caning noun · 78% connection

work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches)

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Catkin noun · 78% connection

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the wi…

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Chat noun · 78% connection

A twig, cone, or little branch. See Chit.

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Cornel noun · 78% connection

Any species of the genus Cornus, as C. florida, the flowering cornel; C. stolonifera, the osier cornel; C. Canadensis, the dwarf corne…

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Crail noun · 78% connection

A creel or osier basket.

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Creel noun · 78% connection

An osier basket, such as anglers use.

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Flagelliform adjective · 78% connection

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

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Flagellum verb · 78% connection

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

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Gird verb · 78% connection

To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

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Kinnikinic noun · 78% connection

Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by the Indians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a subs…

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Kipe noun · 78% connection

An osier basket used for catching fish.

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Osiery noun · 78% connection

An osier bed.

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Pliable verb · 78% connection

Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

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Rattan noun · 78% connection

One of the long slender flexible stems of several species of palms of the genus Calamus, mostly East Indian, though some are African a…

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Ris noun · 78% connection

A bough or branch; a twig.

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Salix noun · 78% connection

A genus of trees or shrubs including the willow, osier, and the like, growing usually in wet grounds.

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