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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

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]

2. nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus;
[syn: hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hazelnut \Ha"zel*nut`\ (h[=a]"z'l*n[u^]t`), n. [AS. h[ae]selhnutu.] The nut of the hazel. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hazelnut 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] 2: nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus [syn: hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob]