willow family

noun

the plant family Salicaceae, characterized by deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, hairy catkins of male and female flowers on separate plants, and capsular fruit, and including the aspen, cottonwood, poplar, and willow.

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Experts also identified the wood panel on which the portrait was painted, from the poplar or willow family, which Rembrandt sometimes used instead of his preferred substrate of oak or canvas.

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Along the watercourses the willow family finds its most congenial habitat.

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The genus Myrica is the type of a small, but widely distributed order, Myricaceae, which is placed among the apetalous families of Dicotyledons, and is perhaps most nearly allied to the willow family.

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The willow family presents great contrasts, both physical and sentimental.

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But the willow family is quite independent of its seeds in the matter of propagation.

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