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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 huskplay

    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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