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hazel

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: hazel

1
 n
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
2
 nadj
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
of a light brown or yellowish brown color
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: hazel
1

n Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

Synonyms:
Pomaderris apetala, hazel tree
Type of:
tree
a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

n any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

Synonyms:
hazelnut, hazelnut tree
Types:
American hazel, Corylus americana
nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America
Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, cobnut, filbert
small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe
Corylus cornuta, beaked hazelnut
hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts
Type of:
nut tree
tree bearing edible nuts

n the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)

Type of:
wood
the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
2

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

Type of:
brown, brownness
an orange of low brightness and saturation

adj of a light brown or yellowish brown color

Synonyms
chromatic
being or having or characterized by hue
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