hazel

Authorities said that Coughran — who they described as a 6-foot-2, 150-pound white man with brown hair and hazel eyes — may have been wearing khaki shorts.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

Their findings show that temperate woodland species, including oak, elm, and hazel, were present much earlier than suggested by pollen records from Britain.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026

The missile, named after the Russian word for hazel tree, was first fired on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro in 2024.

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

Hours after the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a TV address, said that Russia had launched a "new conventional intermediate-range" missile with the codename Oreshnik, meaning hazel tree in Russian.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2024

But Tristran was certain he could see a light beneath a hazel tree, and he walked toward it.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

When placing plants in the quiet-season garden, Fox recommends planting dark-flowered witch hazels where the winter sun will shine through their blossoms, and placing light-colored flowers against an evergreen backdrop.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2021

In theory, the warmer, shorter winter opens up new possibilities for the garden, allowing landscapes to become alive with such things as the misnamed autumn-flowering cherry tree, witch hazels, camellias, Japanese flowering apricot and snowdrops.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2021

No garden should be without hellebores or a daphne or two, winterberry hollies and witch hazels.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2019

TUE Ray Larson, Curator of Living Collections, on witch hazels, 7:30 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 15, 2014

As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien