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CORYLUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae
Synonyms:
Corylus; genus Corylus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Corylus" is a kind of...):
hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)
Meronyms (members of "Corylus"):
hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree (any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk)
Holonyms ("Corylus" is a member of...):
Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))
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