It is known as Xiliu (西柳) or "West Willow" as the external frame of the stadium resembles willow leaves.

Liushu which translates as "willow tree", is derived from Liutiao, willow leaf, and refers to Liutiaogou, willow leaf valley, where the fossils were found.

The metal was a twelve-inch tapering double-edged blade shaped like a willow leaf and about as broad as two fingers, but it was mounted on a round steel tube.

She had trembled, continually, like a willow leaf in the wind.

In Yukon, willow leaves were chewed to treat mosquito bites and bee stings, as well as stomach aches.

There was a moment later when I found a willow leaf stuck to her still-moist haunches.

Most of the spear and arrow points in Siberia followed a common pattern, each shaped like a willow leaf.

In 100 AD Dioscorides mentioned willow leaves and a hundred years later Pliny the Elder and Galen also mentioned them.

A fish plopped in the still pond, disturbing a floating willow leaf.

A black stroke of willow leaf had stuck to the mailbox, neatly transforming 603 to 1603.