HAZELNUT TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hazelnut tree mean? 

• HAZELNUT TREE (noun)
  The noun HAZELNUT TREE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HAZELNUT TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAZELNUT TREE (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 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)