crown

West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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especially of willows, that part of a tree where the root system merges with the trunk.

Quotations

1934

He took an axe and disappeared into the bushes, emerging with a willow root, a tough old crown, hardened by fire.

1963

But I won't go into details of grubbing willow crowns and urging the ox-drawn breaker plow through heavy sod. . . .