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hamamelis

/ ˌhæməˈmiːlɪs /

noun

  1. any of several trees or shrubs constituting the hamameliaceous genus Hamamelis , native to E Asia and North America and cultivated as ornamentals See witch hazel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

At the Cameron farm there were two hamamelis bottles, one in the bath-room, the other on a shelf in the kitchen.

Also the injection of one-half pint cold water, containing a teaspoonful of extract of hamamelis, after a passage, affords relief.

Hamamelis will frequently arrest nose-bleed immediately after one or two doses.

Hamamelis V., (Witch Hazel,) will in nearly all cases arrest the bleeding at once.

A pungent odour exactly like that of extract of hamamelis met his nostrils.

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