hazel

hazel is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. A miner's name for freestone.
3. adjective. Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
4. adjective. Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
5. noun. 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
6. noun. any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

   Synonyms: hazelnut

7. noun. the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
8. noun. Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
9. adjective. of a light brown or yellowish brown color

Synonyms

hazelnut

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in hazel:

hazle

Common word forms

hazels, hazeled, hazelly

Words from these letters

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