OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 2145

hazel

/ˈheɪzəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
avellana
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.
Phrases
📚 noun • entry_id 2144

hazel

/ˈheɪzəl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
avellano
A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
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, e…
The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.
color avellana
A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
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