Word Meanings - HAZELNUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nut of the hazel. Shak.

Related words: (words related to HAZELNUT)

• HAZEL
  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.
• HAZELESS
  Destitute of haze. Tyndall.
• HAZELNUT
  The nut of the hazel. Shak.
• HAZELWORT
  The asarabacca.
• HAZELLY
  Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. Mortimer.
• WITCH-HAZEL
  The wych-elm. An American shrub or small tree , which blossoms late in autumn.
• WYCH-HAZEL
  The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.
• GHAZAL; GHAZEL
  A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.