hazel
7 definitions found
hazel - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Hazel \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.
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I sit me down beside the hazel grove. --Keble.
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2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast
hazel eyes." --Shak.
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Hazel \Ha"zel\ (h[=a]"z'l), n. [OE. hasel, AS. h[ae]sel; akin to
D. hazelaar, G. hazel, OHG. hasal, hasala, Icel. hasl, Dan &
Sw. hassel, L. corylus, for cosylus.]
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. --Gray.
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2. A miner's name for freestone. --Raymond.
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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.
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colorful \colorful\ adj.
1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless.
Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot
; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing;
prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled
]
Syn: colourful.
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2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless
or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious;
flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty
; picturesque]
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3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey;
as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and
monochrome.
Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown
; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown
; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden;
azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome
; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue
; blushful, blush-colored, rosy
; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy;
brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow
; caramel, caramel brown; carnation;
chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike
; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green
; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac
; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured
; mousy, mouse-colored;
ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive;
orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish;
purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet
; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red;
rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
; sorrel, brownish-orange
; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured
; tan; tangerine;
tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red
; yellow, yellowish;
yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue)
; coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress
; hazel; honey, honey-colored
; hued(postnominal); magenta;
maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green;
sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark,
light.]
Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate).
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hazel - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
hazel
adj 1: 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, 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, hazel, hazelnut tree]
4: 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
hazel - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
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.
hazel - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Hazel, KY (city, FIPS 35380)
Location: 36.50536 N, 88.32599 W
Population (1990): 460 (215 housing units)
Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 42049
Hazel, SD (town, FIPS 27940)
Location: 44.75795 N, 97.38015 W
Population (1990): 103 (46 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 57242
hazel - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "hazel":
beige, brown, brownish, brownish-yellow, brunet, chocolate,
cinnamon, cocoa, cocoa-brown, coffee, coffee-brown, drab, dun,
dun-brown, dun-drab, ecru, fawn, fawn-colored, fuscous, grege,
khaki, lurid, nut-brown, olive-brown, olive-drab, seal, seal-brown,
sepia, snuff-colored, sorrel, tan, taupe, tawny, toast,
toast-brown, umber, umber-colored, walnut, walnut-brown,
yellowish-brown
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