chile hazel

Questions about chile hazel

What does chile hazel mean?

chile hazel means "Chilean shrub bearing coral-red fruit with an edible seed resembling a hazelnut".

What is another word for chile hazel?

Close synonyms include Chilean nut, Chile nut, Chilean hazelnut, Guevina heterophylla, Guevina avellana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chile hazel a common word?

chile hazel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.