English noun: hazel |
1. | hazel (plant) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts |
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| Synonyms | hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala |
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| Broader (hypernym) | tree |
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| Member meronym | genus Pomaderris, Pomaderris |
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| Substance holonym | hazel |
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2. | hazel (plant) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | wood |
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| Substance meronym | hazel, hazel, hazel tree, hazelnut, hazelnut tree, Pomaderris apetala |
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3. | hazel (plant) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk |
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| Synonyms | hazelnut, hazelnut tree |
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| Broader (hypernym) | nut tree |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | American hazel, beaked hazelnut, cobnut, Corylus americana, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, Corylus cornuta, filbert |
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| Part holonym | cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut |
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| Member meronym | Corylus, genus Corylus |
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| Substance holonym | hazel |
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4. | hazel (attribute) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes |
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| Broader (hypernym) | brown, brownness |
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