HyperDic: genus_corylus

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Corylus:
NOUNplantgenus Corylus, Corylusdeciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees
English > genus Corylus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningdeciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae.
SynonymCorylus
Member ofBetulaceae, family Betulaceae, birch familymonoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera ... / genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
Membershazelnut, hazel, hazelnut treeAny of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
Broaderhamamelid dicot genusgenus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
Spanishcorylus, genus corylus
Catalancorylus, genus corylus

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