That is the colour of a ripe hazelnut; brown as a nut; of a warm reddish-brown colour. Of hair or complexion, or of (the skin of) an animal.

Reddish- or greenish-brown, of a hazel colour; (also, esp. of a cow) roan; flecked with hazel. Now somewhat rare.

That is the colour of a ripe hazelnut; brown as a nut; of a warm reddish-brown colour. Of a thing, formerly esp. ale.

Reddish-brown or (now more usually) greenish-brown; of the colour hazel (see sense A. 5).

That is the colour of a ripe hazelnut; brown as a nut; of a warm reddish-brown colour. Applied to colour.

Of the colour of a chestnut; deep reddish-brown.

(of) the deep reddish-brown colour of a chestnut; spec. designating a breed of cat (see quot. 1958).

Chestnut-coloured.

Resembling the colour of a chestnut.

Of a dark grey-brown colour with a reddish tinge, like that of nutmegs.