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hazelnut tree

DEFINITIONS OF: hazelnut tree

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

Synonyms:
hazel, hazelnut
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
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