sal·low /ˈsæ(ˌ)lo/
(a.)灰色的,蒼白的,氣色不好的(vt.)(vi.)(使)成菜色柳屬植物,柳枝
Sal·low n.
1. The willow; willow twigs. [Poetic]
And bend the pliant sallow to a shield. --Fawkes.
The sallow knows the basketmaker's thumb. --Emerson.
2. Bot. A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, Salix cinerea, etc.
Sallow thorn Bot., 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.
Sal·low, a. [Compar. Sallower superl. Sallowest.] Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin.
Sal·low, v. t. To tinge with sallowness. [Poetic]
July breathes hot, sallows the crispy fields. --Lowell.
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sallow
adj : unhealthy looking [syn: sickly]
n : any of several Old World shrubby broad-leaved willows having
large catkins; some are important sources for tanbark and
charcoal
v : cause to become sallow; "The illness has sallowed her face"