hazel

Speech parts

1. hazel - Noun

2. hazel - Adjective

3. hazel - Adjective Satellite

4. Hazel - Proper noun

Meaning

A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.

A miner's name for freestone.

Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.

Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

hazelnut filbert cobnut hazelnut tree hazel tree amber auburn dun brown ebony tan mahogany chestnut tawny ochre
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Antonyms

acorn redwood dogwood acacia mocha black
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Hypernyms

brown plant wood brownness nut tree

Hyponyms

filbert cobnut Corylus avellana grandis Corylus avellana beaked hazelnut Corylus cornuta

Phrases with the word

winter hazel witch hazel plant wych hazel plant american witch hazel witch-hazel family wild hazel

Anagrams

hazle Elhaz

Examples

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders. Arthur Symons

The stag at eve had drunk his fill, Where danced the moon on Monams rill, And deep his midnight lair had made In lone Glenartneys hazel shade. Walter Scott

A thing can be true and still be desperate folly, Hazel. Richard Adams

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. Fannie Flagg

Better one hazel grouse in the bag, than ten on the branch. Finnish Proverb

Things for children, apple, almonds and hazel nuts. Sicilian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Hazebrouck hazed hazee hazel alder hazel dormouse hazel grouse