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    GENUS CORYLUS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Corylus; genus Corylus

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Corylus" is a kind of...):

    hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Corylus"):

    hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree (any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk)

    Holonyms ("genus Corylus" is a member of...):

    Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))

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