1. hazel - Noun
2. hazel - Adjective
3. hazel - Adjective Satellite
4. Hazel - Proper noun
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 dictionaryCriticism 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