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AMERICAN HAZEL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does American hazel mean?
• AMERICAN HAZEL (noun)
The noun AMERICAN HAZEL has 1 sense:
1. nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
Familiarity information: AMERICAN HAZEL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
American hazel; Corylus americana
Hypernyms ("American hazel" is a kind of...):
hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree (any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk)
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