hazel tree
- noun
- Australian
:
árbol avellano
- The hazel tree provides delicious nuts that can be harvested in autumn.
Examples
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And by lilac bushes jutting from behind fences, hazel trees, acacia branches smothered in the sun.
Fiction book (2000) -
In many gardens, the hazel tree is valued for its elegant shape and fine-grained wood.
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At the edge of the forest, we found a beautiful hazel tree laden with edible nuts.
Synonyms
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1.0
A small round nut or the tree that makes it, often used in sweets and coffee
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2.7
A shrub or small tree that produces edible round brown nuts
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6.7
A small hazel tree or the round brown nuts it gives that you can eat
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3.1
A small tree or bush that grows edible nuts inside a leafy cover
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9.1
The Latin name for small trees and shrubs that make edible nuts
An Australian tree with pretty leaves, fine wood, and edible nuts
A European tree that makes edible hazelnuts and useful wood
A North American hazel shrub with nuts covered by a long beak-like husk
A shrub with broad leaves that produces edible nuts eaten by people and animals in eastern North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'hazel' (a shrub/small tree that bears hazelnuts) with 'tree' (a tall perennial plant): a hazel tree is simply a tree of the hazel type. This noun-noun composition follows standard, cross-linguistically common compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand the MWE.
Etymology
The name hazel tree comes from the word hazel, which long ago named trees that give hazelnuts and have flexible, smooth wood. So, hazel tree means a tree known for its 'edible nuts' and 'useful wood'.