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Hazel vs Pecan - What's the difference?

hazel | pecan |

As nouns the difference between hazel and pecan

is that hazel is a tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts while pecan is a deciduous tree, species: Carya illinoinensis, of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.

As an adjective hazel

is of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour.

As a proper noun Hazel

is {{given name|female|from=English}} from the plant or colour hazel. Popular in the U.S. at the turn of the 20th century.

hazel

English

(wikipedia hazel)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus , bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
  • The nut of the hazel tree.
  • The wood of a hazelnut tree.
  • A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.
  • (mining) freestone
    • (Raymond)

    Quotations

    * , Scene I *: Kate, like the hazel -twig, *: Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue *: As hazel nuts, and sweeter than the kernels.

    Synonyms

    * (nut) filbert, hazelnut

    Adjective

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

    • Derived terms

    * hazel grouse * hazelnut * witch hazel/wych hazel

    See also

    * lamb's tails * sweet gum * ----

    pecan

    English

    (wikipedia pecan)

    Alternative forms

    * paccan, peccan

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deciduous tree, , of the central and southern United States, having deeply furrowed bark, pinnately compound leaves, and edible nuts.
  • * 1885 , Howard Seely, A Ranchman's stories , page 154:
    • And away on the farther bank, a motte of huge pecans , standing like giant sentinels over the dwarfed landscape, filled the eye with remote vistas in their shady, twilight aisles. It was very still.
  • * 1978 April, in the Texas Monthly , page 51:
    • Within its ornamental fence, the 8/10-acre property includes several of the largest live oaks in the area — plus huge pecans and stately magnolias.
  • A smooth, thin-shelled, edible oval nut of this tree.
  • * 1982 , Beth Henley, Crimes of the heart , page 17:
    • MEG. (Meg takes out two pecans and tries to open them by cracking them together. ) Come on ... Crack, you demons! Crack!
    LENNY. We have a nutcracker!
    MEG. (Trying with her teeth. ) Ah, where's the sport in a nutcracker? Where's the challenge?
  • A half of the edible portion of the inside of this nut.
  • * 2005 , in The Condensed Encyclopedia of Healing Foods (Joseph Pizzorno, Lara Pizzorno; Atria Books, ISBN 978-0-7434-7402-3):
    • Each shell contains two pecans , usually plump and oblong in shape, although some varieties are round or pointed.

    See also

    * pekan

    References

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