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.

Inputed by Brice

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. Light brown.

Checked by Harriet

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

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