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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
Australia
- The Willows, Queensland
- Willow Tree, New South Wales
- Willows Shoppingtown, a shopping centre in Townsville, Queensland
- Willows Sports Complex, Townsville.
Canada
- 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
- 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
- Willow, Alaska
- Willow, Arizona
- Willow, former name of Willows, California
- Willow, Florida, an unincorporated area in Manatee County, Florida
- Willow, Kentucky
- Willow, Bracken County, Kentucky
- Willow, Lee County, Kentucky
- 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 (LACMTA Station), station on the Blue line of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
- Willow Meadows, Houston, Texas
- Willow Oak, Florida
- Willow Street, Pennsylvania
- Willows, California
- Willows, Wisconsin, a fictional populated place
People
- Willow, a persona of professional wrestler Jeff Hardy
- Willow Bay, Kristine Carlin Bay (1963), television presenter and wife of Walt Disney Company CEO Robert Iger
- Willow Johnson, Canadian voice actress
- Willow Palin, daughter of American vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin
- Willow Shields, American Actress, who is known for doing the voice of Kikyo in the English dubbed version of InuYasha and InuYasha: The Final Act.
- Willow Smith, American child actress and singer, daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
- Willow, a supporting character in Tangled: The Series. She is the chatty younger sister of Queen Ariana.
Books
- The Willow Tree, a play by Joseph Henry McAlpin Benrimo
- "The Willows" (story), a short story by Algernon Blackwood
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, a collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami
- Wicked Willow, three original novels based on the U.S. television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Willow & Tara (Buffy comic)
- Blue Willow, a Newbery Honor book written by Doris Gates
- The Wind in the Willows, a classic of children's literature written by British novelist Kenneth Grahame
- "The Willow Song", sung by Desdemona in Shakespeare's play Othello
- Old Man Willow, an evil character in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Fellowship of the Ring
- Willow (Dreadstar), a fictional telepath created by Jim Starlin for the comic series Dreadstar
Film and TV
- Willow (film), a 1988 fantasy film, directed by Ron Howard, with a story by George Lucas
- The Willow Tree (1920 film), a 1920 American silent film based on the McAlpin Benrimo play
- The Willow Tree (2005 film), a 2005 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi
- Willow (TV channel), an American sports channel focused on cricket
- Willow (cat), a cat on the BBC television show Blue Peter
Fictional characters
- Willow, a character in The Wicker Man (1973 film)
- In The Wicker Man (2006 film), the character is named Willow Woodward
- Willow, an artistic western crowned pigeon in Angry Birds Stella and The Angry Birds Movie
- Willow (comics), a mutant character created by Marvel Comics for their Marvel 2099 run X-Nation 2099
- Willow Rosenberg, a character created by Joss Whedon for the television program, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Catherine Willows, a character on the CBS television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Grandmother Willow, a character in Disney's Pocahontas (1995 film) and Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
- Lindsey Willows, a secondary character on the CBS television program CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Willow Stark, a character in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
- Willow Ufgood, the title character from the 1988 film Willow (film)
- Willow, a character from Tangled: The Series
- Willow, a playable character in the indie survival game Don't Starve and its sequel Don't Starve Together
Video gaming
- Willow (arcade game), a 1989 platform game based on the 1988 film of the same name
- Willow (video game), a 1989 video game based on the 1988 film
Music
- The "Willow song", Desdemona's song in operatic settings of Shakespeare's play Othello:
- Otello (Rossini), by Gioachino Rossini (1816)
- Otello (Verdi), by Giuseppe Verdi (1887)
- White Willow (band), an art rock band from Norway
- Willow flute, a type of Scandinavian folk flute consisting of a simple tube with a transverse fipple mouthpiece and no finger holes
- The Willow Pattern, a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Basil Hood and music by Cecil Cook
- "Tit-willow", Koko's song in the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado
Songs
- "Weeping Willow" (song), a song by the Verve from the album Urban Hymns
- "Willow", a song by Scale the Summit from the album The Migration
- Weeping Willow (Joplin), a rag by Scott Joplin
- "Willow's Song", a song composed by American composer Paul Giovanni with lyrics by Robert Burns
- "Yume ni Konnichiwa ~Willow Town Monogatari~", a Japanese song performed by Masami Okui
- "Willows", Vanessa Carlton Liberman (album)
In science
Botany
- 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
- 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
- Willow-leaved pear, Pyrus salicifolia, a small tree from the Middle East, widely grown as an ornamental tree
Zoology
- Willow beauty, a moth of the family Geometridae
- Willow flycatcher, a small insect-eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family
- Willow grouse, a medium-sized bird in the grouse family
- Willow tit, a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae
- Willow warbler or willow wren, a small bird from Europe, Asia and Africa
- Willo (Thescelosaurus), a dinosaur fossil thought to include a fossilized heart
Other
- Golden Willow (horse), the youngest horse to ever win the Badminton Horse Trials
- Willow (typeface), typeface that was designed by Tony Forster in 1990
- 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, also known as esparterie or "sparterie", is a millinery fabric made from willow fibers
- Willey (textile machine), also willey, willow, twilley
- Willow Tree (figurines)
See also
- Willow Creek (disambiguation)
- Willow Grove (disambiguation)
- Willow Hill (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)
- USCGC Willow
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