hazel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

   The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

2. 2
   adj

   Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

   As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.

3. 3
   adj

   of a light brown or yellowish brown color

4. 4
   noun

   a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hawlse (“hazel”), Dutch hazel, hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Vilamovian hozuł (“hazel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Icelandic hesli (“hazel”), Norwegian Nynorsk hasl, hassel (“hazel”); also Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel”), Irish call, coll (“hazel”), Manx coull (“hazel”), Scottish Gaelic coll (“hazel”), Welsh cyll (“hazel trees”).

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