hazel

Adjective

• of a light brown or yellowish brown color

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

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

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

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

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hazelnut , hazelnut tree , hazel tree , Pomaderris apetala