hazel
SubstantivAdjektivhäufig in Dialogen
- //ˈheɪzəl//
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
Substantiv
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A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
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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.
- 5
Freestone.
Herkunft
From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognates Cognate with Yola hawlse (“hazel”), Dutch hazel, hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Vilamovian hozuł (“hazel”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Icelandic hesli (“hazel”), Norwegian Nynorsk hasl, hassel (“hazel”); also Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel”), Irish call, coll (“hazel”), Manx coull (“hazel”), Scottish Gaelic coll (“hazel”), Welsh cyll (“hazel trees”).
Adjektiv
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Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.
The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.
SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)
The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.
Formen
- Plural
- hazels
- Komparativ
- more hazel, hazeler
- Superlativ
- most hazel, hazelest
hazel · A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
Hazel · A female given name from English from the plant or colour…he · A person who identifies as male, or animal already known or…He · A surname from Mandarin.