Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A former occasional name of an order of plants including Corylus, Ostrya, and one or two other genera, now considered as forming a tribe of the order Cupuliferæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of shrubs or small trees, used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun Now considered a subfamily of
Fagaceae : Coryloideae. A taxonomicfamily within theorder Fagales — thehazel and relatedtrees .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus
Etymologies
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Corylus + -aceae
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Examples
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In _Casuarina_, _Juglans_ and the order Corylaceae, the pollen-tube does not enter by means of the micropyle, but passing down the ovary wall and through the placenta, enters at the chalazal end of the ovule.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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