noun. Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus that bear edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk, especially the American species C. americana or the widely cultivated Eurasian species C. avellana.

noun. A light brown or yellowish brown.

noun. The wood of the sweet-gum, Liquidambar Styraciflua: a common use of the word among lumbermen and builders of the eastern United States.

noun. In Australia, either of two small evergreen trees of the buckthorn family, Pomaderris apetala and P. lanigera, yielding excellent wood. See bastard dogwood

noun. cooper's-wood, and Pomaderris.

noun. A soil consisting of a mixture of gravel or sand, clay, and loam.

noun. A plant of the genus Corylus, shrubs or small trees belonging to the natural order Cupuliferæ, or oak family, and giving name to the tribe Coryleæ, to which the hornbeams also belong.

Made of or belonging to the hazel.

Of a light-brown color, like the hazelnut.

adjective. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel.

adjective. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.

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

noun. A miner's name for freestone.

noun. soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.

noun. a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.

noun. a kind of grub hoe.

noun. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.

noun. A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

noun. The nut of the hazel tree.

noun. The wood of a hazelnut tree.

noun. A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

adjective. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

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

adjective. of a light brown or yellowish brown color

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

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

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

"He was to take the timber at a valuation, and it is a sufficient proof of his ignorance of these matters, that he really did not know the difference between a hazel bush and an oak tree; for, although he was a very clever and an ingenious man in his way, yet he actually applied to me, to know how they would measure such _small timber_ as that which he pointed out to me, which was nothing more than a _hazel bush!"

Colours  black-knot of hazel  lamb's tails  snapping hazel  sweet gum  

chromatic  

hazel grouse  hazelnut  witch hazel  wych hazel  

brown  brownness  tree  wood  

Faisal  appraisal  hazle  nasal  reappraisal  

amber  beady  blue-green  bushy  deep-set  

beige  brown  brownish  brownish-yellow  brunet  

filbert