1. any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before the leaves; [syn: winter hazel, flowering hazel]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
winter hazel
n 1: any of several Asiatic deciduous shrubs cultivated for
their nodding racemes of yellow flowers that appear before
the leaves [syn: winter hazel, flowering hazel]