viminal

From Latin viminalis (“pertaining to osiers”), from vimen (“a pliant twig, osier”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɪmɪnəl/

viminal (comparative more viminal, superlative most viminal)

1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, consisting of, or producing twigs.

   Synonym: vimineous

   • 1883, Francis George Heath, Forestry: A Journal of Forest and Estate Management:

     The plantation was then a model of beauty and vigorous health, clothed in a dense viminal mass.

• Viminal Hill

• “viminal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.