hazel

adj : of a light brown or yellowish brown color

n 1: Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its

fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts [syn: {hazel

tree}, {Pomaderris apetala}]

2: the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and

the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)

3: any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus

bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk [syn: {hazelnut},

{hazelnut tree}]