arctic willow

British  

noun

1. a low-growing shrub, Salix arctica, of the tundra

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Example Sentences

Along with these, at timber-line, are flexilis pine, balsam fir, arctic willow, dwarf black birch, and the restless little aspen.

From Wild Life on the Rockies by Mills, Enos Abijah

The ice hare lives on the bark and twigs of the arctic willow and the dry moss and stubble of the desolate regions it inhabits.

From Harper's Young People, January 27, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The party chewed reindeer-moss growing in scant patches in the snow-buried rocks, and at times made a thin, sickly infusion from the arctic willow.

From A Man's Woman by Norris, Frank