green osier

noun

1. a dogwood tree, Cornus alternifolia, of the eastern U.S., having clusters of small white flowers and dark-blue fruit.

Example Sentences

And the book lay open, and my thought flew from it, taking from it A vibration and impulsion to an end beyond its own, As the branch of a green osier, when a child would overcome it, Springs up freely from his claspings and goes swinging in the sun.

From Project Gutenberg

So the knife being opened, I was instructed how to cut a stick of green osier, or maple, shape the end, cut and loosen the bark; and having slipped the bark off, how further to make the requisite notches, so that the hollow cylinder of bark being replaced, there would be a whistle of keen, shrill note.

From Project Gutenberg

Little Sheldon was in the top of a cedar tree, Elizabeth63 was sitting in a green osier, and little Evelina was sitting on Mister Chipmunk’s stump, but poor little Montgomery was still under the heavy nest, and neither Robert Robin nor Mrs. Robin could think of any way to get him out.

From Project Gutenberg

Dogwood, Green osier 157, 158 florida, L. Flowering dogwood, Boxwood 156, 157 Nyssa sylvatica.

From Project Gutenberg

I was sorely afraid that some among them might come roving and muzzling into the bushes where we lay; but they did not, gradually gathering into an uneasy pack and settling on their haunches near the dancing girls, who played with them, and tormented them with branches of hazel, samphire and green osier.

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