noun A small tree or shrub (genus Corylus) that produces edible nuts.
- They planted a row of hazel trees along the boundary.
- Squirrels love collecting the nuts that fall from the hazel by the stream.
- A hazel branch was bent into a curve to make the garden arch.
adj A greenish-brown color, especially of eyes.
- Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.
— Margaret Fiske, Sense & Circuitry: Cyberth 1813 (2011)
- His eyes were somewhere indefinite between green and hazel. Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.
— Francine J. Colangelo (2012)
- She has striking hazel eyes.
- Her new coat was a warm hazel shade that matched her hair.
- The baby's eyes turned hazel instead of blue as she grew.
- And now I should probably say something, but that would involve words, and WHAT EVEN ARE WORDS, and he’s looking at me with the hazelest eyes and the softest, most upturned mouth.
— Becky Albertalli (2017)
