hazel
IPA: hˈeɪzʌɫ
noun
- (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
- (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
- (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
- (mining, countable) Freestone.
- A female given name from English from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
- A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hazel tree.
- A place in the United States:
- A minor city in Calloway County, Kentucky.
- A town in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
adjective
- Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
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Examples of "hazel" in Sentences
- His eyes are portrayed as hazel.
- They can be called hazel at times.
- Hazel Park and the Spaghetti Palace.
- Change this to the hazel eye section.
- Hazel was not re used and was retired.
- Relatives include itch hazel and inter hazel.
- Our next operation in the hazel will be the pruning.
- Hazel hatches a cunning plan to get the sheep of the down.
- An extract of the plant is used in the astringent witch hazel.
- For daily use, the hazel is a bit harsh and could strip your skin.
- The hazelnut is the nut, of the hazel and is also known as the cobnut.
- The wych-hazel is in bloom; brown nuts and yellow flowers on the same twig.
- The forest had been pine with an underbrush of hazel, alder, birch, and willow.
- Most of the DIY recipes I find uses witch hazel, which is apparently a big no-no.
- This question of the blight on the hazel is a most important one for the northern nut growers.
- We look a lot alike: same medium build, dark hair, and sad excuse for an eye color that Mom called hazel.
- The Americans generally accept the use of the term hazel to apply to both the American and European species.
- He was skilled in the lore of plants and herbs, and by means of a slender hazel from the woods could tell where crystal waters flowed deep in the bowels of the earth.
- By 1945 the number of these plants were in the neighborhood of 2000 and by 1952 considerable knowledge had been gained as to the hardiness, blight resistance to the common hazel blight (known scientifically as cryptosporella anomala), freedom from the curculio of the hazelnuts (commonly known as the hazel weevil) and resistance to other insect pests.
- He was to take the timber at a valuation, and it is a sufficient proof of his ignorance of these matters, that he really did not know the difference between a hazel bush and an oak tree; for, although he was a very clever and an ingenious man in his way, yet he actually applied to me, to know how they would measure such _small timber_ as that which he pointed out to me, which was nothing more than a _hazel bush!