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adj
Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A female given name from English from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A topographic surname from Middle English for someone who lived near a hazel tree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A minor city in Calloway County, Kentucky.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
A town in Hamlin County, South Dakota.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Snohomish County, Washington.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
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Usage: countable, usually
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noun
The nut of the hazel tree.
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Usage: countable, usually
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noun
The wood of a hazelnut tree.
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Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable, usually
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noun
Freestone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, usually
Topics: business, mining
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adjective satellite
of a light brown or yellowish brown color
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: brown, brownness
noun
any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hazelnut, hazelnut tree
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Broader terms: nut tree
Narrower terms: American hazel, Corylus americana, cobnut, filbert, Corylus avellana, Corylus avellana grandis, beaked hazelnut, Corylus cornuta
noun
the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
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Broader terms: wood
noun
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala
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Broader terms: tree
History
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”).
Across languages
125 source translations are retained for this English entry.
