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hazelnut tree

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Noun1.hazelnut treehazelnut tree - any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
hazelnut, hazel
cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut - nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus
Corylus, genus Corylus - deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae
hazel - 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 America
cobnut, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, filbert - small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
beaked hazelnut, Corylus cornuta - hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts
nut tree - tree bearing edible nuts


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He would help the little ones with their work project: raking the leaves and collecting the fallen nuts under the hazelnut tree.
Full moon work crew: got a door in disrepair? A weedy garden? ... by Kirschenbaum, Sara / Mothering
Angela Hoffman, an associate professor of chemistry and physics at the University of Portland in Oregon--a state where hazelnut trees are grown in orchards--says certain varieties of the hazelnut tree produce as much as one-tenth of the paclitaxel found in the Pacific yew tree.
Going Nuts over Paclitaxel by Susman, Ed / Environmental Health Perspectives
Hoffman's team has found taxanes in all parts of the blight-resistant hazelnut trees, but concentrations are only one-tenth as high as in the yew trees.
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