Filbert definition

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The edible nut of a hazel, esp. of a cultivated European tree (Corylus avellana or C. maxima); hazelnut.
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A tree bearing this nut.
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The hazel tree.
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A paintbrush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a curving, tongue-shaped head.
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Alternative Forms

Alternative Form of filbert - filberd

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Noun

Singular:
filbert
Plural:
filberts

Origin of filbert

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

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Filbert Sentence Examples

  • The filbert is economically grown on the borders of plantations or orchards, or in open spots in woods.

  • Amongst the forest and other trees are the oak, which yields large quantities of galls, the beech, fir, pine, ash and alder, also the chestnut, walnut and filbert.

  • In short, this is a country of hop-gardens, cherry, apple, pear, and filbert orchards, and quickset hedges.

  • Other species worth growing are C. americana, heterophylla, mandshurica, and maxima, with its very fine variety atropurpurea, and other forms, among them the varieties of cobs and filbert nuts grown for their fruits.

  • As seen in commerce jujube fruits are about the size of a small filbert, having a reddish-brown, shining, somewhat wrinkled exterior, and a yellow or gingerbread coloured pulp enclosing a hard elongated stone.

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