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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 witch ha·zel /ˈwɪʧˌhezəl/

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 witch ha·zel /ˈwɪʧˌhezəl/ 名詞
 北美金縷梅

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ha·zel n.
 1. Bot. A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert.  The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata.  See Filbert.
 2. A miner's name for freestone.
 Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
 Hazel grouse Zool., a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
 Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
 Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 witch hazel
      n 1: any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Hamamelis; bark
           yields an astringent lotion [syn: wych hazel]
      2: lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution
         containing an extract from the witch hazel plant [syn: wych
          hazel]