halesia

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The generic name of the snowdrop- or silverbell-tree of the southern United States, belonging to the natural order Styraceæ, distinguished from Styrax and Symplocos chiefly by its winged fruit.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Bot.) A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, drooping on slender pedicels.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun botany Any of the genus Halesia of American shrubs with white flowers.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America