hazel
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: 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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hazels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hazle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: more hazel
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hazeler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
rare
form: most hazel
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hazelest
pos: adj
tags: rare
superlative
form: hazle
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: 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.
gloss: The nut of the hazel tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: The wood of a hazelnut tree.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: Freestone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
pos: adj
examples: 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.
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.
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.
Derived words: corkscrew hazel
hazel alder
Hazelbrook
Hazel Dell
hazel dormouse
hazel grouse
Hazel Grove
hazel hen
hazel-hen
hazeline
hazelly
hazelnut
hazel nut
hazel pine
hazel pomaderris
hazelwood
Hazelwood
hazelwort
New Zealand hazel
witch-hazel cone gall
witch-hazel cone gall aphid
witch hazel
witch-hazel
hazel-eyed
Translations: