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hazelnut

DEFINITIONS OF: hazelnut

1

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

Synonyms:
hazel, hazelnut tree
Types:
American hazel, Corylus americana
nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, cobnut, filbert
small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
Corylus cornuta, beaked hazelnut
hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts
Type of:
nut tree
tree bearing edible nuts

n nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

Synonyms:
cob, cobnut, filbert
Type of:
edible nut
a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell
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