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willow

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The increasing prevalence of tall willows, an important moose habitat, is one sign of these changes in the delta.

A team of researchers from various universities in Canada and the United Kingdom may have found a sustainable solution—planting willow trees.

While this research probably isn’t ready to take on our sewage system just yet, planting more willow trees has more benefits than just their ability to clean up our waste, Pitre says.

Frédéric Pitre, one of the senior authors of the study and a professor at the Université de Montréal explained that the team was excited to see how effective the willow trees were at filtering the wastewater.

Amid all the noise, Gomes and his team deployed 720 fake caterpillars made of clay among willow trees often visited by birds.

My wife (Susie Hariet) was pregnant with our second child (they have two children, daughter Willow, 4, and son Aubrey, 2).

Earlier, a two-headed dragon in the Ron Howard flop Willow was known, at least around the set, as the “Ebersisk.”

A few feet from where we sit is the sawed-off stump of a third willow.

Two feet from the sawed-off stump of a third willow is the small foot-pump carousel Ray was sitting on when he shot himself.

Other events include a Burns Night Supper on January 24, and a willow-weaving workshop in March.

In a minute Bruce was back with his hat full of water from the creek that whimpered just beyond the willow patch.

What was equally important, a thick clump of cottonwood and willow furnished tolerably secure concealment.

He swept Aristide aside like an intercepting willow-branch, and poured forth a torrent of furious speech upon his wife.

The willow switch dropped; the various recitations came to a sudden pause.

A serious voice arrested the willow switch: I didnt like to be scolded when I was a little girl, it used to make me cry.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to willow, such as: blue-green, olive, apple, aquamarine, beryl, and chartreuse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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