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- noun botany Any of the
flowering plant genus Hamamelis , thewitch hazels .
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Examples
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When he arrived she bathed his battle-scarred features with hamamelis, which is just the same as Pond's Extract, but doesn't cost so much, and told him the other girls had acted foolishly.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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Witch hazel, otherwise known as hamamelis virginiana is a shrub resembling a gray birch and mountain laurel.
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HOW: Pair this plant, also known as hamamelis mollis, with red-stem dogwoods, picea omorika, stewartia pseudocamellia, Ken Janeck rhododendron, black mondo grass and hellebores for an incredible winter garden.
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2009
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Your early blooms are impressive, the hamamelis makes me drool especially as my young Diane is doing almost nothing.
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I was struck by the subtleties of colour in your Diane hamamelis, Frances.
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Your hamamelis Diane, is the daughter of my hamamelis Jelena.
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The big TaDa moment of hamamelis chinensis ‘Diane’.
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After the skin of the leg has thoroughly dried off, an infriction of alcohol or distilled extract of hamamelis is given the parts and the cotton and bandages are readjusted.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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A lotion of one ounce glycerine, one ounce rose-water, ten drops of carbolic acid, and forty drops of hamamelis, is excellent to use on the hands before they are dried each time they are washed.
The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous
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= -- Although the makers have claimed special virtues for this remedy, it is in reality an extract of hamamelis or witch-hazel, and probably differs little in its application or results from the ordinary marketed extract made by the average druggist.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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