hazel

[US]/'heɪz(ə)l/
[UK]/'hezl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a type of tree that produces hazelnuts
adj. light brown or yellowish-brown in color.
Word Forms
Pluralhazels

Phrases & Collocations

hazel eyes

hazel nut

hazel wood

hazel hair

witch hazel

Example Sentences

witch hazels are the harbingers of spring.

She has hazel eyes.

Hazel quietly edged him away from the others.

her alert hazel eyes flickered around the room.

Main Compositions: lactic-peppermint, lavendar essence, witch hazel, modified allantois.

An example of heterochromia in a human. The subject has one brown and one hazel eye.

Real-world Examples

Yeah, it's the hazel, the frijoles.

Source: Connection Magazine

A few years after planting those trees, he planted more hazels.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

With a sort of hazel ring going on?

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

Then on to our old haunt, the hazel grove.

Source: Hu Min reads stories to remember TOEFL vocabulary.

But one colour that's used quite frequently is hazel.

Source: English With Lucy (Bilingual Experience)

This created the need to find sorts of hazels that are resistant.

Source: VOA Slow English Technology

They include white oak trees, blueberry bushes and witch hazel plants.

Source: VOA Slow English - America

If you have a sort of a browny-green eye, it can be called hazel.

Source: English With Lucy (Bilingual Experience)

There was that freckled little girl with her hazel eyes who would come with us.

Source: Hu Min reads stories to remember TOEFL vocabulary.

I'm not even really sure what hazel is, but let's go with it.

Source: PBS Fun Science Popularization

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