hazel : Idioms & Phrases

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american hazel

  • noun nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
    Corylus americana.
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chile hazel

  • noun Chilean shrub bearing coral-red fruit with an edible seed resembling a hazelnut
    Chilean hazelnut; Guevina avellana; Chilean nut; Guevina heterophylla; Chile nut.
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flowering hazel

  • noun any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves
    flowering hazel.
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hazel alder

  • noun common shrub of the eastern United States with smooth bark
    Alnus serrulata; smooth alder.
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Hazel earth

  • soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
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Hazel grouse

  • (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
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Hazel hoe

  • a kind of grub hoe.
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hazel mouse

  • noun a variety of dormouse
    Muscardinus avellanarius.
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hazel tree

  • noun Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
    hazel; Pomaderris apetala.
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hazel-brown

  • adjective satellite of brown tinged with hazel
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vernal witch hazel

  • noun fragrant shrub of lower Mississippi valley having very small flowers from midwinter to spring
    Hamamelis vernalis.
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virginian witch hazel

  • noun common shrub of eastern North America having small yellow flowers after the leaves have fallen
    Hamamelis virginiana.
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winter hazel

  • noun any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves
    flowering hazel.
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Witch hazel

  • noun any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion
    witch hazel; wych hazel; witch hazel plant.
  • noun lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant
    witch hazel.
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  • . See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.
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witch hazel plant

  • noun any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion
    witch hazel; wych hazel; witch hazel plant.
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witch-hazel

Witch"-ha`zel noun
Etymology
See Wych-elm, and Hazel.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The wych-elm. (b) An American shrub or small tree (Hamamelis Virginica), which blossoms late in autumn.
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witch-hazel family

  • noun comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera
    Hamamelidaceae; family Hamamelidaceae.
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wych hazel

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

  • noun any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark yields an astringent lotion
    witch hazel; wych hazel; witch hazel plant.
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wych-hazel

Wych"-ha`zel noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.
Webster 1913