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HAZEL TREE

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Meaning:

Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

Synonyms:

hazel; hazel tree; Pomaderris apetala

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "hazel tree"):

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

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

genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris (a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees)

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