Definitions
of a light brown or yellowish brown color
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Brown-green eye”5 letters
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