Hazel



ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata.
2.
A miner's name for freestone.
adjective
1.
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
2.
Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.