hazel

n. small tree or shrub; hazelnut, edible nut of this tree; golden-brown color

The hazels (Corylus) are a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels (with the hornbeams and allied genera) into a separate family Corylaceae.They have simple, rounded leaves with double-serrate margins. The flowers are produced very early in spring before the leaves, and are monoecious, with single-sex catkins, the male pale yellow and 5–12 cm long, the female very small and largely concealed in the buds, with only the bright red 1–3 mm long styles visible. The seeds are nuts 1–2.5 cm long and 1–2 cm diameter, surrounded by an involucre (husk) which partly to fully encloses the nut.
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Noun
1. Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
(synonym) hazel tree, Pomaderris apetala
(hypernym) tree
(member-holonym) Pomaderris, genus Pomaderris
2. the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
(hypernym) wood
(substance-holonym) hazelnut, hazelnut tree
3. any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
(synonym) hazelnut, hazelnut tree
(hypernym) nut tree
(hyponym) American hazel, Corylus americana
(member-holonym) Corylus, genus Corylus
(part-meronym) hazelnut, filbert, cobnut, cob
Adjective
1. of a light brown or yellowish brown color
(similar) chromatic

(n.)
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the C. avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert.
  

(n.)
A miner's name for freestone.
  

(a.)
Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
  

(a.)
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
  

The Hebrew term luz occurs only in (Genesis 30:37) Authorities are divided between the hazel and the almond tree as representing the luz . The latter is most probably correct.