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A color that can't decide, a tree that's older than agriculture, a name on the rise.
means A small tree or shrub of the birch family that bears edible nuts, or the warm greenish-brown eye color named after those nuts.
from From Old English 'hæsel,' the tree itself, with deep Germanic roots and cousins across the family — Old Norse 'hasl,' German 'Hasel' — and possibly further back to a Proto-Indo-European root for the hazel that also surfaces in Latin 'corulus.' The eye-color sense came much later, borrowing the nut's exact reddish-brown shade and lending it to irises that split the difference between green and brown.
- eye color
- Shifts shade by light, mood, and clothing
- divining rod
- Hazel branches dowse for water by folklore
- ancient nut
- Domesticated roughly 9,000 years ago in Europe
- witch-hazel
- Different plant entirely, still soothes your skin
- folklore wisdom
- Celtic myth linked hazelnuts to poetic knowledge
hazel wood — english woodland in staffordshire, ancient coppiced hazel trees managed for centuries
hazel corylus avellana — european species producing hazelnuts, cultivated commercially in turkey producing 75% of world supply