Hazel

(noun.) a shade of brown that is yellowish or reddish; it is a greenish shade of brown when used to describe the color of someone's eyes.

(noun.) the fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris).

(noun.) Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts.

(adj.) of a light brown or yellowish brown color .

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• Her eyes were hazel, and expressive of mildness, now through recent affliction allied to sadness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• A bolus the size of a hazel-nut three times a day. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Then I _am_ puzzled; for the head which owns this bounteous fall of hazel curls is an excellent little thinking machine, most accurate in its working. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He had for food hazel-nuts, beech-nuts, sweet chestnuts, earth-nuts, and acorns. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But it seemed to be a pale transparent face, quick in expression, though not beautiful in feature, its soft hazel eyes excepted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The desks were littered with catkins, hazel and willow, which the children had been sketching. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A divining rod is a wand or twig of hazel or willow used especially for discovering metallic deposits or water beneath the earth’s surface. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This little sunny-faced girl with the dimpled cheek and rosy lips; the satin-smooth hazel hair, and the radiant hazel eyes? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Her person was the image of her mind; her hazel eyes, although as lively as a bird's, possessed an attractive softness. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• I am sure you cannot be so very ugly as to be ashamed of your face, with those bright hazel eyes, and all that fine hair! 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.

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