corylus

IPA: kˈɔriɫʌs

deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family corylaceae

Examples of "corylus" in Sentences

Row 21 -- Corylus californica, tree hazel corylus colurna.
Jones hybrid filberts, corylus americana -- corylus avellana
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On the Pacific Coast a bacterial blight occurs in some sections on corylus.
There have been trees, a corylus contorta, died, a green leafed weeping japanese maple, moved into the garden and killed by the late freeze last year, planted in it.
These were crowned with copses of shrubby trees, principally of the wild filbert or hazel (_corylus_), with several species of _rosa_ and raspberry (rubus), and bushes of the june-berry
The old Greeks watched the tiny inner scales of these fertile flowers grow into the husk of the nut, fancied its resemblance to a helmet, and called the bush _corys_; whence its botanic name _corylus_.
Row 20 --- Long Island Hazel, bearing Blueberries. 8 plants of selected varieties, Jujube, Tree hazel, corylus colurna, Vest hazel bearing hybrid nuts, Daviana hazel bearing, White Aveline hazel, tree hazel, corylus colurna.
I used to know a man who had mugged up all the trees and plants, so that when you said to him, "What a funny juniper that is over there, with blue peach-blossoms on it," he would reply, "You mean the _Pyrofoliata persica corylus_," and explain how it was first introduced into England by JEREMY