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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

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;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of a light brown or yellowish brown color;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 2. A miner's name for freestone. --Raymond. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
The 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. [1913 Webster] I sit me down beside the hazel grove. --Keble. [1913 Webster] 2. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [WordNet 1.5] 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] [WordNet 1.5] 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). [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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
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
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.
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Hazel, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota Population (2000): 105 Housing Units (2000): 44 Land area (2000): 0.244571 sq. miles (0.633437 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.244571 sq. miles (0.633437 sq. km) FIPS code: 27940 Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46 Location: 44.758926 N, 97.380800 W ZIP Codes (1990): 57242 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Hazel, SD Hazel
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Hazel, KY -- U.S. city in Kentucky Population (2000): 440 Housing Units (2000): 223 Land area (2000): 0.379210 sq. miles (0.982149 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.379210 sq. miles (0.982149 sq. km) FIPS code: 35380 Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21 Location: 36.504658 N, 88.325443 W ZIP Codes (1990): 42049 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Hazel, KY Hazel