hamamelis

noun

any of several trees or shrubs constituting the hamameliaceous genus Hamamelis, native to E Asia and North America and cultivated as ornamentalsSee witch hazel

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Perhaps Hamamelis would have at once cured, but it was not at hand.
New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers
Various
Eighteen genera compose the sub-tropical family in which hamamelis is the type.
Trees Worth Knowing
Julia Ellen Rogers
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is a cousin to red gum, but there is small resemblance.
American Forest Trees
Henry H. Gibson
I was passing a bush of Witch-hazel, (Hamamelis Virginiana,) and was arrested by an unusual humming of bees.
Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
M. Quinby
But the Calycanthus, and a tree of a new genus allied to Hamamelis, I am sorry to say, are no more.
Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnus
William MacGillivray