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Hazel   /hˈeɪzəl/   Listen
Hazel

noun
1.
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts.  Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala.
2.
The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris).
3.
Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk.  Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree.
4.
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.
adjective
1.
Of a light brown or yellowish brown color.



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"Hazel" Quotes from Famous Books



... cups with Spanish wine, and let the toast go round, Here's a health to all who love us on dear old England's ground. Be their tresses gold or auburn, or black as ebon's hue, Be their eyes of witching hazel, loving gray, or heaven's blue, Here's to them all, the girls we love, God bless them every one; May we all be here to toast them when to-morrow's ...
— The Young Buglers • G.A. Henty

... as far as Dun Sobairce; their cows and their women and their cattle have been taken. Cuchulainn did not let them into Mag Murthemne and into Crich Rois; three months of winter then, bent branches of hazel held together his dress upon him. Dry wisps are on his wounds. He has been wounded so that he has been ...
— The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) • Unknown

... Rewarded, True Aristocrat, A Sequel to Faithful Shirley True Love Endures, Her Heart's Victory, Sequel to Dorothy Arnold's Escape Sequel to Max True Love's Reward, Heritage of Love, A, Sequel to Mona Sequel to The Golden Key True to Herself, His Heart's Queen Sequel to Witch Hazel Hoiden's Conquest, A Two Keys How Will It End, Virgie's Inheritance Sequel to Marguerite's Heritage Wedded By Fate Lily of Mordaunt, The Welfleet Mystery, The Little Marplot, The Wild Oats Little Miss Whirlwind Winifred's Sacrifice Lost, A Pearle Witch Hazel ...
— His Heart's Queen • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... a secretion unconnected with flowers; but was not honey-dew, as it has been described. I was passing a bush of Witch-hazel, (Hamamelis Virginiana,) and was arrested by an unusual humming of bees. At first I supposed that a swarm was about me, yet it was late in the season, (it being about the 25th July.) On close inspection, I found the bush contained numerous warty excrescences, the size and ...
— Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained • M. Quinby

... for military glory, and sent on their country's service to a remote and unhealthy colony. Nevertheless, they were such as their country might be proud of, for gallant boys they looked, with courage on their brows, beauty and health on their cheeks, and intelligence in their hazel eyes. ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow


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