hazel

hazel has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.
• n.. A miner's name for freestone.
• a.. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
• a.. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
• n.. 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
• n.. any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
• n.. the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
• n.. Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
• a.. of a light brown or yellowish brown color