HAZEL

hazel

(adjective) of a light brown or yellowish brown color

hazel

(noun) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone’s eyes

hazelnut, hazel, hazelnut tree

(noun) any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

hazel

(noun) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)

hazel, hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala

(noun) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Hazel

A female given name from English from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.

A topographic surname for someone who lived near a hazel tree.

Anagrams

• Zahlé, hazle

Etymology

Noun

hazel (usually uncountable, plural hazels)

(countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

(countable) The nut of the hazel tree.

(uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.

(countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

(mining, countable) freestone

Synonyms

• (nut): filbert, hazelnut

Adjective

hazel

Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

Anagrams

• Zahlé, hazle

Source: Wiktionary

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Ha"zel, n. Etym: [OE. hasel, AS. hæsel; akin to D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan & Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

2. A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.

– Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.

– Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.

– Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

Ha"zel, a.

1. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Keble.

2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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