winter hazel

1. 1.

   any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves

   Synonymsflowering hazel

   Broadershrub

   Part ofCorylopsis

Questions about winter hazel

What does winter hazel mean?

winter hazel means "any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves".

What is another word for winter hazel?

Close synonyms include flowering hazel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is winter hazel a common word?

winter hazel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.