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Hazel vs. Brown — What's the Difference?

Hazel vs. Brown — What's the Difference?

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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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