HAZELNUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hazelnut mean? 

• HAZELNUT (noun)
  The noun HAZELNUT has 2 senses:

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

2. nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

  Familiarity information: HAZELNUT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAZELNUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree

Hypernyms ("hazelnut" is a kind of...):

nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)

Meronyms (parts of "hazelnut"):

cob; cobnut; filbert; hazelnut (nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus)

Meronyms (substance of "hazelnut"):

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"):

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" is a member of...):

Corylus; genus Corylus (deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cob; cobnut; filbert; hazelnut

Hypernyms ("hazelnut" is a kind of...):

edible nut (a hard-shelled seed consisting of an edible kernel or meat enclosed in a woody or leathery shell)

Holonyms ("hazelnut" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

Researchers say the study “included all kinds of tree nuts” like hazelnuts, walnuts and peanuts, which are legumes.

(Daily Handful of Nuts Reduces Disease Risk, VOA)

Hazelnut oil is a good source of vitamin E and is typically used in skincare preparations.

(Chilean Hazelnut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Hazelnut oil is used as a food ingredient and flavoring.

(European Hazelnut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)