genus corylus

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	hamamelid dicot genus,
definition	:	genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	hazel, hazelnut, hazelnut tree,
definition	:	any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	betulaceae, birch family, family betulaceae,
definition	:	monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis) (noun.plant)