Random Thought #136

What's up with hazel colored eyes? What color is hazel? If you to relate it to hazelnuts, you might think golden-brown but hazel tends to be kind of a catch-all term. Specifically with eye color, you've got either brown, blue, green, or hazel. Its like someone said, what color are your eyes? Blue? Nope. Brown? Nope. Green? Nope. Hmm, I guess we'll just call them hazel. Seriously, where does this word come from? I have hazel eyes but if I were to describe them, I guess I would say a combination of brown and light green. I just find it interesting that all the other colors are very distinct, describeable, and relateable but with hazel, nobody can really tell you what that is. It just is.