WINTER HAZEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does winter hazel mean? 

• WINTER HAZEL (noun)
  The noun WINTER HAZEL has 1 sense:

1. any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves

  Familiarity information: WINTER HAZEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINTER HAZEL (noun)

Meaning:

Any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

flowering hazel; winter hazel

Hypernyms ("winter hazel" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major branches)

Holonyms ("winter hazel" is a member of...):

Corylopsis; genus Corylopsis (small genus of deciduous shrubs of temperate regions of Asia)