Word Finder - hazel

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A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

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The nut of the hazel tree.

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The wood of a hazelnut tree.

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A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

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Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

She had short brown hair and kind hazel eyes.

Hazel nuts are grown in woods at a level of more than 1200 ft.

It derives its name from Hazel-bosch (hazel wood).

Hybrid place-names are occasionally to be met with in the colonized portions of Wales, as in Gelliswick (a combination of the Celtic gelli, a hazel grove, and the Norse wick, a haven), and in Fletherhill, where the English suffix hill is practically a translation of the Celtic prefix.

In autumn the rich yellow tint acquired by the leaves of the hazel adds greatly to the beauty of landscapes.

The witch hazel is quite a distinct plant, Hamamelis virginica, of the natural order Hamamalideae, the astringent bark of which is used in medicine.

Among the indigenous trees are the Abies excelsa, Abies microsperma, Pinus sinensis, Pinus pinea, three species of oak, five of maple, lime, birch, juniper, mountain ash, walnut, Spanish chestnut, hazel, willow, hornbeam, hawthorn, plum, pear, peach, Rhus vernicifera, (?) Rhus semipinnata, Acanthopanax ricinifolia, Zelkawa, Thuja orientalis, Elaeagnus, Sophora Japonica, &c. Azaleas and rhododendrons are widely distributed, as well as other flowering shrubs and creepers, Ampelopsis Veitchii being universal.

The light charcoal afforded by the hazel serves well for crayons, and is valued by gunpowder manufacturers.

Among these the beetle Balaninus nucum, the nut-weevil, seen on hazel and oak stems from the end of May till July, is highly destructive to the nuts.

Parasitic on the roots of the hazel is found the curious leafless Lathraea Squamaria or toothwort.

By certain persons, who for different metals used rods of various materials, rods of hazel, he says, were held serviceable simply for silver lodes, and by the skilled miner, who trusted to natural signs of mineral veins, they were regarded as of no avail at all.

The virtue of the hazel wand was supposed to be dependent on its having two forks; these were to be grasped in the fists, with the fingers uppermost, but with moderate firmness only, lest the free motion of the opposite end downwards towards the looked-for object should be interfered with.

If we would've lived through this, I'd name our baby Hazel.

The Jesuit Vaniere, who flourished in the early part of the 18th century, in the Praedium rusticum (pp. 12, 13, new ed., Toulouse, 1742) amusingly relates the manner in which he exposed the chicanery of one who pretended by the aid of a hazel divining-rod to point out hidden water-courses and gold.

The hazel is very frequently mentioned by the old French romance writers.

In the coniferous forests the black grouse, hazel grouse and willow grouse, capercailzie and woodcock are the principal game birds; the crane is found in marshy clearings, birds of prey are numerous, and the Siberian jay in the north and the common jay in the south are often heard.

Do you like the name Hazel?

I'm not promising any miracles.  We got a lot to do to prepare the world for Hazel.

Kaltenbach (Pflanzenfeinde, pp. 633-638, 1874) enumerates ninety-eight insects which attack the hazel.

The larva is very common in hazel nuts and filberts.

A nearly allied form, Balaninus glandium, attacks both hazel nuts and acorns.

Female flowers in pairs, the bracts enlarging in the fruit to form a membranous cup (hazel), or a flat three-lobed structure (hornbeam).

The spaces between were closed in with rods (usually hazel) firmly interwoven.

Among indigenous trees, shrubs and vines that bear edible fruits or nuts the state has the blackberry, grape, pawpaw, persimmon, plum, crabapple, hickory, chestnut and hazel nut.

When in the same plant there are unisexual flowers, both male and female, the plant is said to be nionoecious, as in the hazel and castor-oil plant.

Among indigenous shrubs and vines are the hazel, blackberry, gooseberry, whortleberry, huckleberry, grape and cranberry.

Hazel was human, and Dusty followed Darian's pointing finger to a hotel ablaze with light.

Normally, she felt privileged that he still gave her the time of day, what with the way he'd turned out—formed like a Greek god with hazel eyes so pretty their boss swooned every time she spoke to him.

But you are not.  Hazel is safe.  She'll be a beautiful woman – if you leave now.

Every day.  I swear it.  We won't be apart anymore.  We'll stay here until I can get the castle cleaned out and beat the shit out of my brothers.  They'll be moving in, even if they don't know it yet.  And that's where Hazel will hatch and live.

Its name is probably derived from hazel brushwood, which formerly abounded on the hills and glens around it.

Saturday Hazel and Len put on a free air display with many military aeroplanes flying over on their way to a display.

In addition there are wild cherry, large alders and very old hazel.

Hazel nuts and roasted almonds in white wines, dried figs in red ones.

The distinctive microscopic anatomy of hazel wood allows definite identification of well-preserved specimens of wood and charcoal.

The main food plant of the hazel leaf beetle is the silver birch.

Hazel is still boggled by all the flowers, cards, book tokens etc from bereft colleagues... .

Using shrub species to act as a barrier between wood and roadside (holly, hawthorn, hazel, dog rose, buckthorn ).

Beech and maple, which have more anthocyanin have red leaves in autumn while hazel and birch have more carotene and yellow autumn leaves.

In sheltered places hazel catkins seem to emerge earlier each year.

Because Hazel Blears is such a hard-working little chipmunk, she's not actually put up her Top 40 on Labor's website.

Height 5ft 5¼ ins - ruddy complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes, nose inclined to left, diagonal scar on left eyebrow.

Among these is an area of hazel coppice which is part of the historic management of the site.

If your roots are greasy soak some cotton wool in witch hazel, cologne or skin tonic and rub all over scalp.

The interior chimney hood was fairly simple, using ash rods with hazel woven between them, and lime clay daub finish.

The hazel dormouse, which has disappeared from many areas of the country in recent decades, is being restored to its historic habitats.

The woodland is mainly hazel coppice and is home to the rare dormouse.

Similarly, there are small woods dominated by birch with sycamore, hazel and ash and with planted elm and larch.

Both Hazel and Bhadur were awarded places in the national final for a second face-off.

The shrub layer consists of rowan and holly, with hazel locally frequent and occasional goat willow.