1. hazel(n = noun.plant) hazel tree, pomaderris apetala - Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts; Array
is a kind of tree
is a member of genus pomaderris, pomaderris
2. hazel(n = noun.plant) Array - the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris); Array
is a kind of wood
3. hazel(n = noun.plant) hazelnut, hazelnut tree - any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk; Array
is a kind of nut tree
has parts: cob, cobnut, filbert, hazelnut
is a member of corylus, genus corylus
has particulars: american hazel, corylus americana, cobnut, corylus avellana, corylus avellana grandis, filbert, beaked hazelnut, corylus cornuta
4. hazel(n = noun.attribute) Array - 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; Array
is a kind of brown, brownness
Derived form adjective hazel1
hazel(s = adj.all) Array - of a light brown or yellowish brown color; Array
Derived form noun hazel4
1. A shrub or small tree of the genus
2. A miner's name for freestone. Raymond. [1913 Webster]
1. 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]
2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. Shak. [1913 Webster]
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
american hazel, chile hazel, flowering hazel, hazel alder, hazel mouse, hazel tree, vernal witch hazel, virginian witch hazel, winter hazel, witch hazel, witch hazel plant, wych hazel, wych hazel plant