Definitions for hazels

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hazels ha·zel

Spelling: [hey-zuh l]

IPA: /ˈheɪ zəl/

Hazels is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 87 anagrams from letters in hazels (aehlsz).

Definitions for hazels

noun

1. any shrub or small tree belonging to the genus Corylus, of the birch family, having toothed, ovate leaves and bearing edible nuts, as C. avellana, of Europe, or C. americana and C. cornuta, of the Western Hemisphere.
2. any of several other shrubs or trees, as an Australian shrub, Pomaderris apetala.
3. the wood of any of these trees.
4. the hazelnut or filbert.
5. light golden brown, as the color of a hazelnut.
6. a female given name.

adjective

1. of or relating to the hazel.
2. made of the wood of the hazel.
3. having a light golden-brown color.

Origin of hazels

before 900; Middle English hasel; Old English hæs(e)l; cognate with German Hasel, Old Norse hasl, Latin corylus hazel shrub

Examples for hazels

Never have two people been more in love than Augustus Waters and hazel Grace Lancaster, and now one of them is about to die.

And after a moment, lifting her hazel eyes to his, she said.

She was pale to the lips, and her hazel eyes were blazing, as she cut into his apologies for Blood.

His hazel eyes actually glimmer and his brown hair, barely beginning to salt and pepper, curls up around a Seattle Seahawks cap.

Gus asks hazel to speak at his eventual funeral, but decides he wants to hear what she has to say first.

In Fault, hazel is very fixated on meeting her idol, author Peter van Houten.

"Of course, of course," murmured hazel, looking down on the table.

The movie ends with hazel actually happy—she made the choice to be in love with Gus, and she likes that choice.

If he meant to confuse her, he failed—for she only smiled and said to herself: "They're hazel."

Her eyes were of a gentle hazel, not the hazel that looks black at night.