hazelnut tree

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hazelnut tree - any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy huskhazelnut, hazelcob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut - nut of any of several trees of the genus CorylusCorylus, genus Corylus - deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceaehazel - the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)American hazel, Corylus americana - nut-bearing shrub of eastern North Americacobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert - small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europebeaked hazelnut, Corylus cornuta - hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nutsnut tree - tree bearing edible nuts