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Definition of Hazel
1. Adjective. Of a light brown or yellowish brown color.
2. Noun. Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts.
Generic synonyms: Tree
Group relationships: Genus Pomaderris, Pomaderris
3. Noun. The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris).
4. Noun. Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk.
Terms within: Cob, Cobnut, Filbert, Hazelnut
Group relationships: Corylus, Genus Corylus
Specialized synonyms: American Hazel, Corylus Americana, Cobnut, Corylus Avellana, Corylus Avellana Grandis, Filbert, Beaked Hazelnut, Corylus Cornuta
Generic synonyms: Nut Tree
5. 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.
Definition of Hazel
1. 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.
2. a. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
Definition of Hazel
1. Proper noun. (given name female from=English) from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century. ¹
2. Proper noun. (surname topographic from=Middle English dot=) for someone who lived near a hazel tree. ¹
3. Noun. A tree or shrub of the genus ''Corylus'', bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts. ¹
4. Noun. The nut of the hazel tree. ¹
5. Noun. The wood of a hazelnut tree. ¹
6. Noun. A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut. ¹
7. Adjective. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hazel
1. a shrub [n -S] - See also: shrub
Medical Definition of Hazel
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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 colour, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes."
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hazel
Literary usage of Hazel
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"And you 're not tired yet of these iron bonds of matrimony 1 hazel. ... hazel.
Failed! You have not failed! You have made me too happy. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The light charcoal afforded by seen projecting beyond the hazel serves well for
crayons, and he catkin ¡s valued by gunpowder manufacturers. a^ine°from"the* ..."
3. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons, Marion Satterlee (1900)
"It is also frequently utilized in more secular concoctions. The common name is
supposed to be a corruption of the Greek word lor immortality. WITCH-hazel. ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"hazel-nuts, under the name of Barcelona or Spanish nuts, are largely exported
from France and Portugal, and especially Tarragona and other places in Spain. ..."
5. Alsea Texts and Myths by Leo Joachim Frachtenberg (1920)
"One day the children took a hazel twig and began twisting it until it was soft.
Only the inner part of the twig remained hard. ..."
6. Natural Inheritance by Francis Galton (1889)
"hazel. Dark. 2746 267 165 430 TABLE 17. 569 61 85 302 1175 121 86 216 ... hazel.
Dark. 127 13 25 32 Data limited to the eye-colours of the 2 parents. ..."
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