Also described as: hazel-green eyes, green hazel
An iris with a clear green component alongside the warmer gold or brown flecking characteristic of hazel — green enough that 'brown' would be wrong, and warm enough that 'green' alone would be too. Whether a given pair of eyes is recorded as green or as hazel often depends on the observer and the light rather than on anything about the eyes.
greener end
An illustrative approximation only — a real iris carries several colours at once, which a single swatch cannot show.
warmer, more hazel end
An illustrative approximation only — a real iris carries several colours at once, which a single swatch cannot show.
A green base with warm gold, amber or light brown present, usually concentrated nearer the pupil.
How much of the iris is green versus warm-toned, and whether the warm component forms a distinct inner ring or is scattered throughout.
One of the clearest everyday demonstrations that eye colour is not fixed: the same eyes can be described as green by one person in daylight and as hazel by another under a warm lamp, and both descriptions are reasonable.
Photographs tend to resolve this category to one side or the other depending on white balance, so an image is a particularly poor basis for deciding whether eyes are green or hazel.
Green-hazel describes a boundary between two categories that studies already define inconsistently, so no separate prevalence figure can be given for it.
Both green and hazel are already defined differently between sources, so an intermediate description between them compounds the inconsistency rather than resolving it. No prevalence figure is stated here.
Styling ideas below are optional and editorial — never rules, and never a claim that one colour choice is objectively correct for anyone.
Confidence: low. Geographic scope: Not tracked as a separate category in the available literature, so no geographic distribution can be stated for it specifically.