Sallow
Sallow (sal"lo) , noun
[Old English salwe, Anglo-Saxon sealh; akin to Old High German salaha, German salweide, Icelandic selja, Latin salix, Ir. sail, saileach, Gael. seileach, Welsh helyg, Greek "eli`kh.]
1.
The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic] — Tennyson
And bend the pliant sallow to a shield.
The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb.
2.
(Botany) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, Salix cinerea, etc.
Collocations (1)
Sallow thorn (Botany) , a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elaeagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.
Sallow , adjective
[Anglo-Saxon salu; akin to Dutch zaluw, Old High German salo, Icelandic solr yellow.]
Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. — Shakespeare
Sallow , transitive verb
To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic]
July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields.