hazel
/ˈheɪzəl/ noun B2- A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
- The nut of the hazel tree.
- The wood of a hazelnut tree.
- A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
- Freestone.
Plural hazels
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He was a tall boy, with curly brown hair, roguish hazel eyes, and a mouth twisted into a teasing smile.
Diana is going to teach me to sing a song called ‘Nelly in the Hazel Dell.’ She’s going to give me a picture to put up in my room; it’s a perfectly beautiful picture, she says--a lovely lady in a pale blue silk dress.
“Anne,” she said to that small personage, who was shelling peas by the spotless table and singing, “Nelly of the Hazel Dell” with a vigor and expression that did credit to Diana’s teaching, “did you see anything of my amethyst brooch?
She had an odd, newly awakened consciousness under all her outraged dignity that the half-shy, half-eager expression in Gilbert’s hazel eyes was something that was very good to see.
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