corylus avellana

1. 1.

   small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe

   SynonymscobnutfilbertCorylus avellana grandis

   Broaderhazelnut

Questions about corylus avellana

What does corylus avellana mean?

corylus avellana means "small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe".

What is another word for corylus avellana?

Close synonyms include cobnut, filbert, Corylus avellana grandis. 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 corylus avellana a common word?

corylus avellana 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.