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A
willow
is any of the several hundred species of deciduous trees and shrubs in the genus
Salix
.
Willow
or
willows
may also refer to:
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United States
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- Willow, Alaska
- Willow, former name of
Willows, California
- Willow, Florida
, an unincorporated area in Manatee County, Florida
- Willow, Illinois
- Willow, Kentucky
- Willow, New York
, a hamlet in Ulster County, New York
- Willow, Oklahoma
- Willow, Wisconsin
, a town in Richland County, Wisconsin
- Willow Branch, Indiana
- Willow City, North Dakota
- Willow Glen, San Jose
, California
- Willow Island, Nebraska
- Willow Street station
, a station on the Blue line of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Willow Meadows, Houston
, Texas
- Willow, Michigan
, unincorporated community
- Willow Oak, Florida
- Willow Street, Pennsylvania
- Willows, California
- Willow, Wisconsin
- Willows, Wisconsin
, a fictional populated place
- Salem Willows
, Salem, Massachusetts
People
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Film and TV
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Characters
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- Catherine Willows
, a character in
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Grandmother Willow, a character in Disney's
Pocahontas
and
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
- Lindsey Willows, a secondary character in
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Willow, a mutant
character created by Marvel Comics
for their Marvel 2099 run
X-Nation 2099
- Willow Rosenberg
, a character in
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Willow Stark
, a character in
Days of Our Lives
- Willow Ufgood, the title character from the 1988 film
Willow
- A character from
Tangled: The Series
- A playable character in the indie survival game
Don't Starve
and its sequel
Don't Starve Together
- A character in the 1973 film
The Wicker Man
- A character in
The Wicker Man
(2006 film)
- A bird in the video game
Angry Birds Stella
and
The Angry Birds Movie
- Willow Park, a character in
The Owl House
- Willow Schnee, a character in
RWBY
- Professor Willow, a major NPC in the AR mobile game
Pokemon GO
Video gaming
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Music
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Songs
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- "Willow" (song)
, a song by Taylor Swift from
Evermore
- "Willow", a song by Joan Armatrading from the album
Show Some Emotion
- "Willow", a song by Kamelot from the album
The Awakening
- "Willow", a song by Said the Whale from the album
Hawaiii
- "Willow", a song by Scale the Summit from the album
The Migration
- "Willow", a song from the musical
Venice
- "
Willow song
", Desdemona's song in operatic settings of Shakespeare's play
Othello
- "
Willow's Song
", a song composed by American composer Paul Giovanni with lyrics by Robert Burns
- "Willows", by Vanessa Carlton from
Liberman
- "Tit-willow", Koko's song in the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera
The Mikado
Science
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- Pussy willow
, a name for several species of willow, when bearing their furry catkins
- Seep willow,
Baccharis salicifolia
, a flowering shrub from the south-west United States and northern Mexico
- Willo (
Thescelosaurus
)
, a dinosaur fossil thought to include a fossilized heart
- Willow oak
(
Quercus phellos
), a species of oak with willow-like leaves
- Willow-herb, any of the herbaceous plants in the genus
Epilobium
, many of which have willow-like leaves
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- The
Allied reporting name
for the Japanese biplane trainer
Yokosuka K5Y
during the Second World War
- USCGC
Willow
, several U.S. Coast Guard cutters
- Willow (Joe Biden's cat)
, cat owned by U.S. President Joe Biden
- Willow Man
, large outdoor sculpture by Serena de la Hey
- Willow pattern
, also known as Blue Willow, distinctive and elaborate pattern used on some pottery plates
- Willow project
, oil development project in Alaska
- Willey (textile machine)
, also willey, willow, twilley
- Willow (typeface)
, typeface that was designed by Tony Forster in 1990
- Willows, an API for Unix systems to allow recompilation of Windows programs for Linux, featured by
Caldera OpenLinux
- Golden Willow (horse)
, the youngest horse to ever win the Badminton Horse Trials
- A
cricket bat
, which is made of willow tree wood
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Topics referred to by the same term