flowering hazel
- noun
:
avellano en flor
- The flowering hazel brightens our garden each spring with its delicate yellow blooms.
Examples
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We planted a row of flowering hazels along the walkway for their beautiful late-winter blossoms.
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Horticulturists recommend flowering hazel as an early source of color before most trees leaf out.
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The flowering hazel blooms in early spring.
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Many gardeners love the flowering hazel for its beauty.
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Horticulturists recommend flowering hazel as an early source of color before most trees leaf out.
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The flowering hazel brightens our garden each spring with its delicate yellow blooms.
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We planted a row of flowering hazels along the walkway for their beautiful late-winter blossoms.
Synonyms
A shrub with drooping clusters of yellow flowers that bloom in early spring before the leaves appear
A small shrub from Asia that loses its leaves and has yellow spring flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective+noun combination: 'flowering' (bearing blossoms) modifying 'hazel' (the shrub), so the meaning — a hazel plant that is in bloom — is directly derivable from the parts. This adjectival modification pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Flowering hazel is a name that tells you what the plant looks like: it is a hazel shrub with bright yellow 'flowers' that hang from bare branches before the leaves appear. The word flowering points to those early blooms, so the name helps you remember it is the hazel that 'flowers' in late winter.
