hazelnut tree
Noun
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Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk (synset 112309340)
is a type of: nut tree - tree bearing edible nutssubtypes:
- 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
belongs to: corylus, genus corylus - deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceaesubstance holonym: hazel - the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
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