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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several deciduous shrubs or small trees of the genus Hamamelis, especially H. virginiana, of eastern North America, having yellow flowers that bloom in late autumn or winter.
  2. n. An alcoholic solution containing an extract of the bark and leaves of this plant, applied externally as a mild astringent.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany Any of several small deciduous trees, of the genus Hamamelis, having yellow flowers
  2. n. US, botany Hamamelis virginiana (Eastern North America), especially, or Hamamelis vernalis (Ozarks).
  3. n. medicine An extract of the bark and/or leaves of this plant, used as an astringent

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant
  2. n. any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion

Etymologies

  1. See Middle English wiche, Old English wice ("pliant, bendable, weak") (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of obsolete wych, wych elm; see wych elm + hazel. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • chained_bear A North American shrub, Hamamelis virginica; also, an extract of the leaves and bark of this shrub, used as an astringent remedy. Feb 16, 2007

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