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Webster 1913 Edition


Halesia

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Ha-le′si-a

(hȧ-lē′zhĭ-ȧ)
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Noun.
[NL.]
(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.