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Filbert

//ˈfɪlbət// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The hazelnut.

    "I'll bring thee / To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I'll get thee / Young scamels from the rock."

  2. 2
    nut of any of several trees of the genus Corylus wordnet
  3. 3
    The hazel tree.
  4. 4
    small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe wordnet
  5. 5
    A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.

Etymology

Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Middle English filbert-note, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.

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