ha·zel /ˈhezəl/
榛子,淡褐色(a.)榛樹的,淡褐色的
Ha·zel n.
1. Bot. 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.
2. A miner's name for freestone.
Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
Hazel grouse Zool., a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.
Ha·zel, a.
1. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
I sit me down beside the hazel grove. --Keble.
2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. “Thou hast hazel eyes.”
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hazel
adj : of a light brown or yellowish brown color
n 1: Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its
fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts [syn: hazel
tree, Pomaderris apetala]
2: the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and
the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
3: any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus
bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk [syn: hazelnut,
hazelnut tree]
Hazel
Heb. luz, (Gen. 30:37), a nutbearing tree. The Hebrew word is
rendered in the Vulgate by amygdalinus, "the almond-tree," which
is probably correct. That tree flourishes in Syria.