genus corylus

Noun
  1. Deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel;
    Sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae (synset 112309115)
    is a type of: hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
    member holonym: hazel, hazelnut, hazelnut tree - any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
    belongs to: betulaceae, birch family, family betulaceae - monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
    same as: corylus

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