Billow vs Willow - What's the difference?
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A large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound
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To surge or roll in billows
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To swell out or bulge
Any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix , in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.
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(cricket, colloquial) A cricket bat
The baseball bat.
A rotating spiked drum used to open and clean cotton heads.
As nouns the difference between billow and willow
is that billow is a large wave, swell, surge, or undulating mass of something, such as water, smoke, fabric or sound while willow is any of various deciduous trees or shrubs in the genus Salix, in the willow family Salicaceae, found primarily on moist soils in cooler zones in the northern hemisphere.As verbs the difference between billow and willow
is that billow is to surge or roll in billows while willow is to open and cleanse (cotton, flax, wool, etc.) by means of a willow.As a proper noun Willow is
{{given name|female|from=English}} of modern usage.billow
English
Noun
(en noun)- whom the winds waft where'er the billows roll
- And the brooklet has found the billow / Though they flowed so far apart.
- Have the swirling sands engulfed them, on a noon of storm when the desert rose like the sea, and rolled its tawny billows on the walled gardens of the green and fragrant lands?
Verb
(en verb)- During the preceding afternoon a heavy North Pacific fog had blown in … Scudding eastward from the ocean, it had crept up and over the redwood-studded crests of the Coast Range mountains,
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willow
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(wikipedia willow)Noun
(en noun)- and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows .