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HAZEL

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("hazel" is a kind of...):

brown; brownness (an orange of low brightness and saturation)

Derivation:

hazel (of a light brown or yellowish brown color)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

Synonyms:

hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hazel" is a kind of...):

nut tree (tree bearing edible nuts)

Meronyms (parts of "hazel"):

cob; cobnut; filbert; hazelnut (nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus)

Meronyms (substance of "hazel"):

hazel (the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hazel"):

American hazel; Corylus americana (nut-bearing shrub of eastern North America)

cobnut; Corylus avellana; Corylus avellana grandis; filbert (small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe)

beaked hazelnut; Corylus cornuta (hazel of western United States with conspicuous beaklike involucres on the nuts)

Holonyms ("hazel" is a member of...):

Corylus; genus Corylus (deciduous monoecious nut-bearing shrubs of small trees: hazel; sometimes placed in the subfamily or family Corylaceae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hazel" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Holonyms ("hazel" is a substance of...):

hazel; hazelnut; hazelnut tree (any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk)

hazel; hazel tree; Pomaderris apetala (Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

Synonyms:

hazel; hazel tree; Pomaderris apetala

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("hazel" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Meronyms (substance of "hazel"):

hazel (the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris))

Holonyms ("hazel" is a member of...):

genus Pomaderris; Pomaderris (a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of a light brown or yellowish brown color

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

chromatic (being or having or characterized by hue)

Derivation:

hazel (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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Each had a yew or hazel stave slung over his shoulder, plain and serviceable with the older men, but gaudily painted and carved at either end with the others.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was very near, but not yet in sight; when, in addition to the tramp, tramp, I heard a rush under the hedge, and close down by the hazel stems glided a great dog, whose black and white colour made him a distinct object against the trees.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)