Hazel vs. Hazle — What's the Difference?

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.

Hazle is a surname.

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.

Archaic form of hazel

A light brown or yellowish brown.

Archaic form of hazel

(countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.

To make dry; to dry.

(countable) The nut of the hazel tree.

(uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.

A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

Freestone.

Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)

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.

A miner's name for freestone.

Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand.

Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut.

Australian tree grown especially for ornament and its fine-grained wood and bearing edible nuts

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

Any of several shrubs or small trees of the genus Corylus bearing edible nuts enclosed in a leafy husk

Of a light brown or yellowish brown color