Found 2 items, similar to Corylus Americana.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Corylus americana
Corylus americana
n : nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America [syn:
American hazel
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Corylus Americana
Hazel
\Ha"zel\ (h[=a]"z'l), n. [OE. hasel, AS. h[ae]sel; akin to
D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan &
Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]
1. (Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus
Corylus, as
the
Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel
of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American
species are
Corylus Americana, which produces the common
hazelnut, and
Corylus rostrata. See
Filbert. --Gray.
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2. A miner's name for freestone. --Raymond.
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Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
Hazel grouse (Zo["o]l.), a European grouse (
Bonasa betulina
), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
Witch hazel. See
Witch-hazel, and
Hamamelis.
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filbert
\fil"bert\, n. [Perh. fr. fill + bread, as filling the
bread or husk; cf. G. bartnuss (lit., bread nut) filbert; or
perh. named from a St.Philibert, whose day, Aug. 22, fell in
the nutting season.]
1. (Bot.) The fruit of the
Corylus Avellana or
Corylus maxima
, also called the hazel; the hazelnut. It is an
oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild,
farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.
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Note: In England filberts are usually large hazelnuts,
especially the nuts from selected and cultivated trees.
The American hazelnuts are of two other species,
Corylus Americana and
Corylus cornuta, and are also
sometimes called filberts.
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2. (Bot.) The tree bearing the filbert; the hazelnut tree.
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Filbert gall (Zo["o]l.), a gall resembling a filbert in
form, growing in clusters on grapevines. It is produced by
the larva of a gallfly (
Cecidomyia).
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