osier

/oh-zher/US // ˈoʊ ʒər //UK // (ˈəʊzɪə) //

奥西尔,奥西耶,鸵鸟,茴香树

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any of various willows, as the red osier, having tough, flexible twigs or branches that are used for wickerwork.
- : a twig from such a willow.
- : any of various North American dogwoods.

A variety of colors was the only ornament of their wooden or osier shields.
Their roads were marvels of engineering construction, but they could not build bridges except frail ones made out of osier cables.
But the youngest sister would not hear of it, and they all rose out of sight in their osier basket.
In those days the lazy waters of the Loire flowed midst osier-beds and birchen thickets, since removed for purposes of navigation.
The shields displayed their texture of osier or bull-tendon, destitute of their coverings of hide.