hazel

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ha=zel

CIDE DICTIONARY

hazel, n. [OE. hasel, AS. hæsel; akin to D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan & Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.].

•  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.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]
•  A miner's name for freestone.  Raymond.  [1913 Webster]

Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam. -- Hazel grouse (Zoöl.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse. -- Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe. -- Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

hazel, a. 

•  Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.  [1913 Webster]

  "I sit me down beside the hazel grove."  [1913 Webster]
•  Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hazel, n.
1 any shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, esp. C. avellana bearing round brown edible nuts.
2 a wood from the hazel. b a stick made of this.
3 a reddish-brown or greenish-brown colour (esp. of the eyes).

Idiom

hazel-grouse a woodland grouse, Tetrastes bonasia.

Etymology

OE h{aelig}sel f. Gmc

THESAURUS

hazel

beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, chocolate, cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, drab, dun, dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, grege, khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, seal, seal-brown, sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, taupe, tawny, toast, toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown, yellowish-brown