A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert.
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
A Druid sacred tree. Faeries are attracted to hazel. Healing wands are made from its wood, as are water divining sticks.
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
Corylus Aveliana (L) - used for spars, sways and rods - said to be hardier than withy
( Hazel): n. [From Middle and Old English] A woman's name, but also 1. a. A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, especially C. avellana of Europe or C. americana of North America, bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk. b. The nut of a hazel, with a smooth, brown shell. 2. A light to strong brown or yellowish brown colour. ( NOTE: The use of this word in the song title "Hazel," from 1983, may, in fact, refer to Elizabeth's cousin Hazel.)
Any of several species of nut bearing shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus. Represented in the North Country by two common species of tall shrub, the American Hazel ( Corylus americana) and the Beaked Hazel ( Corylus cornuta). Pagânimij or ogebwamij in the Ojibwe.
The hazels are a genus of about ten species of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate northern hemisphere.