winter hazel

winter hazel
noun
any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves
Syn: ↑flowering hazel
Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush
Member Holonyms: ↑Corylopsis, ↑genus Corylopsis

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noun
: any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs or small trees (genus Corylopsis) that are closely related to the witch hazels and are sometimes cultivated for their yellow flowers which appear in nodding racemes subtended by large bracts before the unfolding of the leaves — called also flowering hazel

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