hazel

A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.countableusually

• 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.

The nut of the hazel tree.countableusually

The wood of a hazelnut tree.uncountableusually

A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.countableuncountableusually

Freestone.countableusually

Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

• 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.