wych-hazel
Britishnoun
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Every autumnal Sunday they spent hours together in the woods, from which the Seraph would bring home gentians, wych-hazel and a lyric, and Sigurd a ruff all tangled up with burrs.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee
The wych-hazel, notwithstanding its name, is nothing akin to the "corylus" but a true elm.
From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John
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