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/ˈheɪzəl/
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ˈheɪzəl
Noun
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
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The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
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Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
The nut of the hazel tree.
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The wood of a hazelnut tree.
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A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
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Freestone.
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Adjective
Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
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As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.
The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.
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SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)
The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.
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What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”
Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.
His eyes were somewhere indefinite between green and hazel. Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.
And now I should probably say something, but that would involve words, and WHAT EVEN ARE WORDS, and he’s looking at me with the hazelest eyes and the softest, most upturned mouth.
Adjective
of a light brown or yellowish brown color
Noun
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
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the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
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any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
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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