1. any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk; [syn: hazelnut, hazel, hazelnut tree]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
hazelnut tree
n 1: any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus
bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk [syn:
hazelnut, hazel, hazelnut tree]