Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, usually)A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

    Haselstrauch

    лещи́наleščína, оре́шникoréšnik

    ліщи́наliščýna

    any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

  2. (countable, usually)The nut of the hazel tree.

    the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)

  3. (uncountable, usually)The wood of a hazelnut tree.

    оре́хoréx

    Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

  4. (countable, uncountable, usually)A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

    оре́ховыйoréxovyj

    a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes

  5. (countable, usually)Freestone.

Examples

18 sentences
  1. I met a beautiful girl with hazel eyes.

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  2. Tom has hazel eyes.

    ruУ Тома карие глаза.

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  3. I have hazel eyes.

    ruУ меня карие глаза.

    deIch habe braune Augen.

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  4. This is a hazel tree.

    deDas ist ein Haselnußbaum.

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  5. Tom's eyes are bluish hazel.

    Том має карі з блакитним відтінком очі.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
tree / shrub:
Русский
By meaning 3
tree / shrub:
wood:
colour:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
tree / shrub:

Origin

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germani

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”).

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Forms

plural: hazels

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts:hazel treePomaderris apetala
  • any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk:hazelnuthazelnut tree

Word family

13 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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