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HAZELNUT TREE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

Synonyms:

hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hazelnut tree" is a kind of...):

nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)

Meronyms (parts of "hazelnut tree"):

cob; cobnut; filbert; hazelnut (nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus)

Meronyms (substance of "hazelnut tree"):

hazel (the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hazelnut tree"):

American hazel; Corylus americana (nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America)

cobnut; Corylus avellana; Corylus avellana grandis; filbert (small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe)

beaked hazelnut; Corylus cornuta (hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts)

Holonyms ("hazelnut tree" is a member of...):

Corylus; genus Corylus (deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae)

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