Willow (disambiguation)

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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

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 vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin
Willow Shields, American Actress
Willow Smith, American child actress and singer, daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith

In entertainment

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
Old Man Willow, an evil character in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Fellowship of the Ring
Whomping Willow, a large, magical and violent tree in the fictional world of Harry Potter
Willow (Dreadstar), a fictional telepath created by Jim Starlin for the comic series Dreadstar
Willow Stark, a character in the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives
Willow Ufgood, the title character from the 1988 film Willow (film)

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

Literature

"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

Music

The Willow Pattern, a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Basil Hood and music by Cecil Cook
"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
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
"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
"The Willow Song", Desdemona's song in operatic settings of Shakespeare's play Othello:
- Otello (Rossini), by Gioachino Rossini (1816)
- Otello, by Giuseppe Verdi (1887)
"Tit-willow", Koko's song in the 1885 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado

Other entertainment

Willow (film), a 1988 fantasy film, directed by Ron Howard, with a story by George Lucas
The Willow Tree, a play by Joseph Henry McAlpin Benrimo
- The Willow Tree (1920 film), a 1920 American silent film based on the aforementioned play
The Willow Tree (2005 film), a 2005 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi
Willow (cat), a cat on the BBC television show Blue Peter
Willow (TV channel), an American sports channel focused on cricket

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)