Translingual

Proper noun

Corylus f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Betulaceae – the hazelnut.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, eurosids I - clades; Fagales - order; Betulaceae - family; Coryloideae - subfamily

Coordinate terms

• (genus): Asterocarpinus, Carpinus, †Coryloides (extinct), †Cranea (extinct), †Kardiasperma (extinct), Ostrya, Ostryopsis, †Palaeocarpinus (extinct) - genera

Hyponyms

• (genus):

Latin

Alternative forms

• corulus

Noun

corylus f ‎(genitive corylī); second declension

1. a hazel or filbert shrub
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Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

• corylētum

Descendants

• Translingual (taxonomic genus): Corylus

References

• cŏrylus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• corylus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cŏry̆lus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 436/2.