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say it: HAY-zuhl
hazel is a noun and adjective meaning "Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts". It carries 5 recorded senses.
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
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
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hazel come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.