hazel
hazel Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Having a light reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, or greenish-brown color, especially in reference to the human iris.
"The portrait captured her striking hazel eyes in the warm afternoon light."
• noun
A deciduous shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus in the birch family (Betulaceae), native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere and bearing rounded leaves, pendulous male catkins, and edible nuts enclosed in leafy husks.
"The woodland border was planted with coppiced hazel to provide shelter for nesting songbirds."
A warm, light reddish-brown or greenish-brown color resembling the ripe shell of a hazelnut, often seen in human eye coloration.
"Her eyes were a warm shade of hazel that seemed to shift toward green in bright sunlight."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English hæsel, of Germanic origin and related to German Hasel, as well as Latin corulus ('hazel'). The color sense arose in the 16th century from comparison with the ripe shell of a hazelnut.