English > hazelnut tree: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk. |
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Synonyms | hazelnut, hazel |
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Member of | Corylus, genus Corylus | deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees |
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Parts | hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob | nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus |
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Narrower | American hazel, Corylus americana | nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America |
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beaked hazelnut, Corylus cornuta | hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts |
cobnut, filbert, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis | small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe |
Broader | nut tree | Tree bearing edible nuts |
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Substances | hazel | The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) |
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Spanish | avellana, avellano |
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Catalan | avellana, avellaner |
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