hazel

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, usually) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
2. (countable, usually) The nut of the hazel tree.
3. (uncountable, usually) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
4. (countable, uncountable, usually) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
5. (countable, usually) Freestone.

Adj

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

Synonyms

hazelnut

hazel tree

filbert

brown

hazelnut tree

hazel-wood

nut-brown

chestnut

🌰

cobnut

light brown

nut brown

hazel-tree

Pomaderris apetala

hazelly

corylus avellana

Turkish filbert

Turkish hazelnut

filbert tree

Chilean hazelnut

hazel-bush

hazel-brown

dace

nutbrown

nut

hazeled

hazel grove

hazel-nut

Translations

noisetier

nocciolo

🪨

avellano

Corylus californica

noisette

avellaner

φουντουκιά

avellano

fındık

hazelaar

Hasel

coudrier

Haselnussstrauch

nocciola

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈheɪzəl/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: hasel

Inherited from Old English: hæsl

Cognate with Dutch: hazelaar

Cognate with German: Hasel

Cognate with Swedish: hassel

Cognate with Latin: corulus

Cognate with Irish: coll

In summary

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).