Hazel vs. Brown — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hazel and Brown
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Hazel
The hazel (Corylus) is a genus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The genus is usually placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists split the hazels (with the hornbeams and allied genera) into a separate family Corylaceae.
Brown
Brown is a composite color. In the CMYK color model used in printing or painting, brown is made by combining red, black, and yellow, or red, yellow, and blue.
Hazel
Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus that bear edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk, especially the American species C. americana or the widely cultivated Eurasian species C. avellana. Also called filbert, hazelnut.
Brown
Of a colour produced by mixing red, yellow, and blue, as of dark wood or rich soil
She had warm brown eyes
An old brown coat
Hazel
A light brown or yellowish brown.
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Brown
Dark-skinned or suntanned
His face was brown from the sun
Hazel
(countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
Brown
Brown colour or pigment
The brown of his eyes
The print is rich with velvety browns
A pair of boots in brown
Hazel
(countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
Brown
A brown thing, in particular the brown ball in snooker.
Hazel
(uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
Brown
A satyrid butterfly, which typically has brown wings with small eyespots.
Hazel
A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
Brown
Another term for coloured (sense 2 of the noun)
Hazel
Freestone.
Brown
Make or become brown, typically by cooking
Grill the pizza until the cheese has browned
A skillet in which food has been browned
Hazel
Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
Brown
Any of a group of colors between red and yellow in hue that are medium to low in lightness and low to moderate in saturation.
Hazel
A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert.
Brown
Of the color brown.
Hazel
A miner's name for freestone.
Brown
Having a brownish or dark skin color.
Hazel
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.
I sit me down beside the hazel grove.
Brown
Often Offensive Of or being a person of nonwhite origin.
Hazel
Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.
Brown
Deeply suntanned.
Hazel
Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts
Brown
To make or become brown.
Hazel
The fine-grained wood of a hazelnut tree (genus Corylus) and the hazel tree (Australian genus Pomaderris)
Brown
To cook until brown.
Hazel
Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk
Brown
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
Hazel
Of a light brown or yellowish brown color
Brown
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
Brown
(uncountable) Black tar heroin.
Brown
A copper coin.
Brown
A brown horse or other animal.
Brown
A person of Latino, Middle Eastern or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
Brown
(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
Brown
(entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
Brown
(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
Brown
A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
Brown
Having a brown colour.
Brown
(obsolete) Gloomy.
Brown
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Brown
(US) Latino
Brown
(of Asians) South Asian
Brown
(of East Asians) Southeast Asian
Brown
(intransitive) To become brown.
Fry the onions until they brown.
Brown
To cook something until it becomes brown.
Brown
To tan.
Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
Brown
(transitive) To make brown or dusky.
Brown
(transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
Brown
To turn progressively more Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.
The browning of America
Brown
Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.
Cheeks brown as the oak leaves.
Brown
A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.
Brown
To make brown or dusky.
A trembling twilight o'er welkin moves,Browns the dim void and darkens deep the groves.
Brown
To make brown by scorching slightly; as, to brown meat or flour.
Brown
To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.
Brown
To become brown.
Brown
An orange of low brightness and saturation
Brown
Scottish botanist who first observed the movement of small particles in fluids now known a Brownian motion (1773-1858)
Brown
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
Brown
A university in Rhode Island
Brown
Fry in a pan until it changes color;
Brown the meat in the pan
Brown
Of a color similar to that of wood or earth
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