adj.
1.of a light brown or yellowish brown color hazel n.
1.Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
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
Idiom of the Day
in (someone's) clutches
in the control of someone who has power over someone else
The young boy is in his friend's clutches and cannot make up his mind for himself.