hazel

CEFRB2

/ˈheɪzəl/

adjective · noun

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Having a light brown or greenish-brown color.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    The nut of the hazel tree.

Examples

  • I met a beautiful girl with hazel eyes.

  • Witch hazel tightens pores without drying skin.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
2

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. The wood of a hazelnut tree.

  2. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

noun

Extra meaning

  1. A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

More examples

In context

  • You have such beautiful, hazel eyes.

  • The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

  • 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.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hawlse (“hazel”), Dutch hazel, hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Vilamovian hozuł (“hazel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Icelandic hesli (“hazel”), Norwegian Nynorsk hasl, hassel (“hazel”); also Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel”), Irish call, coll (“hazel”), Manx coull (“hazel”), Scottish Gaelic coll (“hazel”), Welsh cyll (“hazel trees”).