😭 Crying 😭 Crying with sorrow 🌳 Hanging branches

weeping

5 4.1

Having long branches that hang down like a willow tree

adjective
/ˈwiːpɪŋ/

: llorón

In the park, we found several weeping willows, their drooping branches providing shade on a sunny day.

And even though what we see here is a bunch of like these weeping scraggly branches, it's quite like loose and kind of shrubby like this.

Examples

Another one is being under a weeping Willow with my mom and eating, eating lunch, having a little picnic, which is crazy.
There's five of these weeping Alaskan Cedars.
Don't be a king or a weeping Willow.
I was just going to hop in to also paint a picture for folks because you had this itching, weeping, bleeding and so forth.
And even though what we see here is a bunch of like these weeping scraggly branches, it's quite like loose and kind of shrubby like this.

Epic Gardening
We've got a Sinisio trailing jade, weeping, weeping jade.
The garden features a stunning weeping cherry tree that creates a beautiful canopy of cascading blossoms.
The landscape was enhanced by the graceful form of the weeping birch, its long branches gently swaying in the breeze.

Synonyms

drooping

vsweeping

9 3.5

Hanging down because it is weak or not held up

often shows an elegant bend rather than a sick or weak droop

pendulous

vsweeping

2 7.7

Hangs down loosely, like branches or flower stems

often forms a smoother, graceful curve rather than loose hanging

nodding

vsweeping

1 3.7

A plant part that bends down, like a flower head

often looks more graceful and flowing than a plain bend

cernuous

vsweeping

Specialized

9.9

Bending or hanging down like plant stems and flower heads

often appears gracefully bent rather than merely drooping downward

Compounds

weeping willow

3 3.1

A tree with long hanging branches and thin leaves that often grows near water

weeping beech

1 7.7

A type of beech tree with long drooping branches often grown in gardens

weeping spruce

1 8.1

A medium-sized spruce tree with long hanging branches from California and Oregon

Babylonian weeping willow

8.1

A tree with long drooping branches and thin leaves often planted near ponds for shade

weeping love grass

9.9

A grass that lives for many years from South Africa and grows in dense clumps to stop soil erosion

weeping tree broom

New Zealand

9.9

A small plant with drooping branches and purple to white flowers from New Zealand

Wisconsin weeping willow

Specialized

7.7

A kind of willow tree that often grows upright rather than with hanging branches

How Drooping

drooping

9 3.5

weeping

5 4.1

bending

15 2.1

sloping

15 3.1

upright

96 2.7

Surface Forms

weeping positive

Morphology

weeping = weep (semi-transparent) = weep + ing

The botanical sense is a metaphorical extension (branches appear to 'weep' by hanging downward), so the mapping from 'weep' to 'hang/droop' is not fully literal for learners.

Etymology

Weeping for plants comes from the same root weep, which means 'to cry'. People thought branches that hang down looked like falling tears, so a weeping tree has branches that bend down gracefully.