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 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"