CORYLUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Corylus mean? 

• CORYLUS (noun)
  The noun CORYLUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: CORYLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORYLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Corylus; genus Corylus

Hypernyms ("Corylus" is a kind of...):

hamamelid dicot genus (genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins)

Meronyms (members of "Corylus"):

hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree (any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk)

Holonyms ("Corylus" is a member of...):

Betulaceae; birch family; family Betulaceae (monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis))

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the nuts of Corylus avellana.

(European Hazelnut Oil, NCI Thesaurus)