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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of shrubs or small trees, natural order Corylaceæ, including the common hazel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a genus of deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs or small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae

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