Hazel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus, especially the European species C. avellana or the American species C. americana, bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk. Also called filbert.
  • n. A hazelnut.
  • n. A light brown or yellowish brown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
  • n. The nut of the hazel tree.
  • n. The wood of a hazelnut tree.
  • n. A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
  • adj. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See filbert.
  • n. A miner's name for freestone.
  • adj. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel.
  • adj. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plant of the genus Corylus, shrubs or small trees belonging to the natural order Cupuliferæ, or oak family, and giving name to the tribe Coryleæ, to which the hornbeams also belong.
  • Made of or belonging to the hazel.
  • Of a light-brown color, like the hazelnut.
  • n. The wood of the sweet-gum, Liquidambar Styraciflua: a common use of the word among lumbermen and builders of the eastern United States.
  • n. In Australia, either of two small evergreen trees of the buckthorn family, Pomaderris apetala and P. lanigera, yielding excellent wood. See bastard dogwood
  • n. cooper's-wood, and Pomaderris.
  • n. A soil consisting of a mixture of gravel or sand, clay, and loam.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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
  • adj. of a light brown or yellowish brown color
  • n. the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
  • n. Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
  • n. any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
  • Equivalent
    chromatic   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brownness    brown    wood    tree   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    filbert   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    hazelnut    filbert   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Faisal    appraisal    hazle    nasal    reappraisal   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    deep-set    bushy    lustrous    leafy    leafless    thorny    reddish    lilac    blue-green    holly