Hazel

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1. Noun

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. See Filbert.

2. Noun

A miner's name for freestone.

3. Adjective

Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.

4. Adjective

Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.

5. Noun

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

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

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