Filbert meaning

fĭl'bərt
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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Origin of filbert

  • Middle English from Old French (nois de) filbert (nut of) Philbert after Saint Philibert (died 684), whose feast day in late August coincides with the ripening of the nut
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Earlier filbert-nut, Philibert-nut, from Anglo-Norman noix de filbert, so named because they are ripe near Saint Philibert’s Day.
    From Wiktionary

Filbert Sentence Examples

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

  • 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.

  • The filbert, 2 among the numerous varieties of Corylus Avellana, is extensively cultivated, especially in Kent, for the sake of its nuts, which are readily distinguished from cob-nuts by their ample involucre and greater length.

  • Filbert nuts required for keeping must be gathered only when quite ripe; they may then be preserved in dry sand, or, after drying, by packing with a sprinkling of salt in sound casks or new FIG.

  • Their different forms include the Cosford, which are thin-shelled and oblong; the Downton, or large square nut, having a lancinated husk; the white or Wrotham Park filbert; and the red hazel or filbert, the kernel of which has a red pellicle.

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