Hazel

Quick meaning: Hazel is a noun meaning (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
2. (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
3. (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
4. (mining, countable) Freestone.
5. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

Example Sentences

Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.

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

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

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.”

Word Forms

• hazels
• hazle
• hazeler
• hazelest

Synonyms for hazel

Depending on context, synonyms include hazelnut, chromatic, colored.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hazelnut, colored, chromatic, chestnut, nut, wych.

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