Definitions
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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Examples
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There have been trees, a corylus contorta, died, a green leafed weeping japanese maple, moved into the garden and killed by the late freeze last year, planted in it.
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I used to know a man who had mugged up all the trees and plants, so that when you said to him, "What a funny juniper that is over there, with blue peach-blossoms on it," he would reply, "You mean the _Pyrofoliata persica corylus_," and explain how it was first introduced into England by JEREMY
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21 Various
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Row 21 -- Corylus californica, tree hazel corylus colurna.
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On the Pacific Coast a bacterial blight occurs in some sections on corylus.
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Jones hybrid filberts, corylus americana -- corylus avellana
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Row 20 --- Long Island Hazel, bearing Blueberries. 8 plants of selected varieties, Jujube, Tree hazel, corylus colurna, Vest hazel bearing hybrid nuts, Daviana hazel bearing, White Aveline hazel, tree hazel, corylus colurna.
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The old Greeks watched the tiny inner scales of these fertile flowers grow into the husk of the nut, fancied its resemblance to a helmet, and called the bush _corys_; whence its botanic name _corylus_.
Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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These were crowned with copses of shrubby trees, principally of the wild filbert or hazel (_corylus_), with several species of _rosa_ and raspberry (rubus), and bushes of the june-berry
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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