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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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(Bot.)

The wych-elm.

(b)

An American shrub or small tree (

Hamamelis Virginica

), which blossoms late in autumn.

Noun.

A species of elm, (Ulmus montana.)

The hop-hornbeam, (carpinus ostrya.)

The Virginian witch-hazel is the Hamemelis virginica, a shrub which flowers in autumn when its leaves are falling.

See also: witch hazel

witch-hazel