Willowherb

Quick meaning: Willowherb is a noun meaning Any of several flowering plants, mostly in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.

Meaning

Any of several flowering plants, mostly in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.

Example Sentences

Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.

And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.

Word Forms

• willowherbs
• willow herb

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include zauschneria, epilobium, fireweed, willowwort, willow-weed, willow-wort.

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