Corylus

Corylus
noun
deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae
Syn: ↑genus Corylus
Hypernyms: ↑hamamelid dicot genus
Member Holonyms: ↑Betulaceae, ↑family Betulaceae, ↑birch family
Member Meronyms: ↑hazelnut, ↑hazel, ↑hazelnut tree

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\\ˈkȯrələs\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Latin corylus, corulus hazel or filbert shrub — more at hazel
: a genus of shrubs or small trees (family Betulaceae) comprising the hazels and having the nut enclosed in a leafy involucre — see filbert

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corylus /korˈi-ləs/
noun
A deciduous nut-bearing tree of the genus Corylus including C. avellana, the European hazel, and C. maxima, the filbert
ORIGIN: L

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