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A willow whose long, thin, bendy branches are cut for making baskets, fences, and woven furniture. People also call those branches osiers (or withies): you soak them so they stay flexible, then weave. It is an old country-and-craft word. and basket-makers still use it; in the city you are more likely to hear just “willow.” Though actually, not every willow is an osier — the name points at the kinds grown for their shoots, not at a big shade tree by a river. You will meet it in older books, craft shops, and plant lists more than in everyday talk.
杞柳；編籃用的柳條
組成Borrowed from French osier, “basket willow.”
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Osiername
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A surname from French.
osiernoun/ˈəʊzɪə/
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A willow, of species Salix viminalis, growing in wet places in Europe and Asia, and introduced into North America, considered the best willow for wickerwork.
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Any kind of willow.
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Long, pliable twigs of this plant, or of other similar plants.
- She pulled half a dozen fine fish out of the water within the reeds, killing each as she took it out, and threading it on a long osier that she carried. Then she knotted the osier, hung it on her arm, picked up the pitcher, and turned to come back.
- Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。