Definition of Beaked hazelnut
1. Noun. Hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts.
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Literary usage of Beaked hazelnut
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1. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"Involucre consists of two leafy bractlets which are distinct in the Common Hazelnut and united into a tubular beak in the beaked hazelnut. ..."
2. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and by Francis Peyre Porcher (1869)
"beaked hazelnut, (Corylus rostrata, Ait.) Grows on the mountains, Fl. March, Griffith, Med. Bot., 585 ; Duhamel's Mem. Am. Journal Pharm. ..."
3. Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill (1906)
"The beaked hazelnut is a small bush, not more than three to four feet high; the leaves are large, oval, and coarse in texture, furrowed and dentate at the ..."
4. An Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"In thickets. 2. Corylus rostrata, Ait. (L., rostratus, beaked.) beaked hazelnut. Shrubs with nearly glabrous ovate or narrowly ..."
5. Elements of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen (1897)
"Leaves roundish heart-shaped ; stipules acute, from a broad base ; involucre open, showing the nut. b. (C. ROSTRATA), beaked hazelnut ..."
6. Nantucket Wild Flowers by Alice Owen Albertson (1921)
"April-May beaked hazelnut. Fruit ripe August-September Corylus: for derivation see americana. Rostrata: Latin meaning beaked. THE PREFERRED HABITAT: sandy ..."