Hazel

/ˈheɪzəl/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
2. (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
3. (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
4. (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
5. (mining, countable) Freestone.
6. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

Example Sentences

The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.

As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.

The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.

SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)

The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.

What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”

Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.

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• hazels
• hazle
• more hazel
• hazeler
• most hazel
• hazelest

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