Definition of Cricket-bat willow

1. Noun. Eurasian willow tree having greyish leaves and ascending branches.

Exact synonyms: Salix Alba Caerulea
Group relationships: Genus Salix, Salix
Generic synonyms: Willow, Willow Tree

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cricket-bat Willow

cribrous
cribrous lamina
cribrum
cribs
cribsheet
cribsheets
cribwork
cribworks
cricetid
cricetids
cricetulus
crichtonite
cricify
cricked
cricket
cricket-bat willow (current term)
cricket ball
cricket bat
cricket bats
cricket equipment
cricket field
cricket fields
cricket frog
cricket ground
cricket grounds
cricket match
cricket pitch
cricket pitches
cricket whites

Literary usage of Cricket-bat willow

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forests, Woods and Trees in Relation to Hygiene by Augustine Henry (1852)
"cricket-bat willow should be planted only in good sites, such as rich alluvial lands by the side of a running stream, ..."

2. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1914)
"The Journal of the Board of Agriculture, XXI, 1914,— The Cricket Bat Willow. Pp. 289-292. Discusses the identification ..."

3. Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society by Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (1908)
"Mr DW Thomson, Nurseryman, Edinburgh, exhibits a 9 feet length of Salix alba (the cricket bat willow), also a sample bat made from another specimen, ..."

4. Botanisches Zentralblatt: Referierendes Organ für das Gesamtgebiet der Botanik by Botanischer Verein in München, Deutsche Botanische Gesellschaft, Berlin (1908)
"Bean, WT, The Cricket Bat Willow. (Kew Bulletin p. 311-316. Illustrated. 1907.) The supplies of willow wood suited for manufacture of cricket bats have ..."

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