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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:
Places
editAustralia
edit- Willows, Queensland
- Willows Sports Complex, Townsville
Canada
edit- Willows, Saskatchewan, an unincorporated community in the Rural Municipality of Lake of the Rivers No. 72
- The Willows, Saskatoon, a neighbourhood in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Willow Bunch, Saskatchewan
- Willows Beach, Victoria, British Columbia
United Kingdom
edit- The Willows, Salford, home of Salford City Reds rugby league club
- Willow Tearooms, tearooms at 217 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland
- Willows and Wetlands Visitor Centre, Stoke St Gregory, Somerset
- Ferry Hinksey Road (AKA Willow Walk), a footpath in Oxford
United States
edit- Willow, Alaska
- Willow, former name of Willows, California
- Willow, Florida, an unincorporated area in Manatee County, Florida
- Willow, Illinois
- Willow, Kentucky
- Willow, Bracken County, Kentucky; see Kentucky Route 22
- Willow, Lee County, 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
edit- Willow (given name), a female name
- Willow, a persona of professional wrestler Jeff Hardy (born 1977)
Books
edit- Old Man Willow, an evil character in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Fellowship of the Ring
- Wicked Willow, three original novels based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Willow (Dreadstar), a fictional telepath created by Jim Starlin for the comic series Dreadstar
- Willow & Tara, an anthology in the Buffy the Vampire franchise
- "The Willow Song", sung by Desdemona in Shakespeare's play Othello
- "The Willows" (story), a short story by Algernon Blackwood
Film and TV
edit- Willow (1988 film), a 1988 fantasy film, directed by Ron Howard, with a story by George Lucas
- Willow (2019 film) a 2019 Macedonian film, directed by Milcho Manchevski
- Willow (TV channel), an American sports channel focused on cricket
- Willow (TV series), an American sequel TV series to the 1988 movie of the same name
- Willow, a cat on the BBC television show Blue Peter
Characters
edit- 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 Pokémon GO
Video gaming
edit- Willow (arcade game), a 1989 Capcom platform game based on the 1988 film of the same name
- Willow (NES video game), a 1989 NES video game based on the 1988 film
Music
edit- Willow Smith, American singer and actress known mononymously as WILLOW
- The Willows (trio), Canadian musical group
- Willow flute, a Scandinavian folk flute
Songs
edit- "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
edit- 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
Other
edit- 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
See also
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- The Willows (disambiguation)
- Willow Tree (disambiguation)
- Weeping Willow (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles beginning with Willow
- All pages with titles containing Willow
- All pages with titles beginning with The Willow
- Willow Creek (disambiguation)
- Willow Grove (disambiguation)
- Willow Hill (disambiguation)
- Willow Island (disambiguation)
- Willow Lake (disambiguation)
- Willow Park (disambiguation)
- Willow River (disambiguation)
- Willow Run (disambiguation)
- Willow School (disambiguation)
- Willow Springs (disambiguation)
- Willow Township (disambiguation)
- Willow Valley (disambiguation)
- The Wind in the Willows (disambiguation)