Shrubby wetland trees
Sallows are willows, especially the broad-leaved varieties with soft, fuzzy catkins rather than the weeping kind.
The word appears mainly in British usage and poetry: The sallows by the stream were budding.
As an adjective, sallow describes an unhealthy yellowish complexion—a different word entirely, though both suggest something pale and wan.
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Shrubby wetland trees
Sallows are willows, especially the broad-leaved varieties with soft, fuzzy catkins rather than the weeping kind.
The word appears mainly in British usage and poetry: The sallows by the stream were budding.
As an adjective, sallow describes an unhealthy yellowish complexion—a different word entirely, though both suggest something pale and wan.
1. willow-tree — osier, Willow for basketry; catkins (Pendulous flower spikes); basketry (Art of weaving containers); coppicing (Cutting trees to regrow); pollard · weeping · streamside · shrub · branchlets · bark · tannin · deciduous · woodland · thicket
2. pallid-complexion — wan, Pale and unwell-looking; ashen (Pale, grayish-white); pallid (Unhealthily lacking color); jaundiced (Bitter and distrustful); yellowish · unhealthy · haggard · pasty · waxen · sickly · anemic · dull · faded · allow
WILLOW TYPE/GROWTH HABITsallows ≠ weeping willows Trees with pendulous branches; weeping willow
TREE FORMsallows ≠ oaks Sturdy deciduous hardwoods; beeches · poplars
sallow, sallowness, sallowest, sallowing
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/sallows