Hazel
['heɪz(ə)l] or ['hezl]
Definition
(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.
(noun.) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris).
(noun.) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts.
(adj.) of a light brown or yellowish brown color .
Typist: Loretta--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) A miner's name for freestone.
(a.) Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
(a.) Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Light brown.
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Definition
n. a bush or small tree of genus Corylus of the oak family (Cupulifer) yielding an ovoid bony nut enclosed in a leafy involucre.—adj. pertaining to the hazel: of a light-brown colour like a hazel-nut.—n. Hā′zeline an alcoholic distillate from the Witch Hazel.—adj. Hā′zelly light brown like the hazel-nut.—n. Hā′zel-nut the nut of the hazel-tree.
Typist: Miranda
Examples
- Her eyes were hazel, and expressive of mildness, now through recent affliction allied to sadness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- A bolus the size of a hazel-nut three times a day. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Then I _am_ puzzled; for the head which owns this bounteous fall of hazel curls is an excellent little thinking machine, most accurate in its working. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He had for food hazel-nuts, beech-nuts, sweet chestnuts, earth-nuts, and acorns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- But it seemed to be a pale transparent face, quick in expression, though not beautiful in feature, its soft hazel eyes excepted. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A divining rod is a wand or twig of hazel or willow used especially for discovering metallic deposits or water beneath the earth’s surface. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Her person was the image of her mind; her hazel eyes, although as lively as a bird's, possessed an attractive softness. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I am sure you cannot be so very ugly as to be ashamed of your face, with those bright hazel eyes, and all that fine hair! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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